Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous surrender. In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain as companion and guiding light. Following in the footsteps and contours of Shepherd's seminal work, she explores the same landscapes and themes. This is a journey separated by time but unified by space and purpose, a conversation between two women across nearly a century that explores how entering the life of a mountain can illuminate our own. The wild majesty and iridescence of the Cairngorms is revealed in this beautiful evocation of landscape, place and identity.