Born to a Scottish mother and Punjabi father, Arun Sood grew up hearing tales of his grandmother’s life on Vallay, a tiny Hebridean island accessed only at low tide from the coast of North Uist. Grandma was Katie MacNaughton, a housekeeper for George Beveridge, who tragically drowned wading home in 1944 (his father was Erskine Beveridge, the renowned Scottish archaeologist). The island was abandoned soon after, but Katie never forgot the songs and the sounds that she heard there.
