flyn is a very lyrical writer, which is a nice surprise in non-fiction: she's very good at conjuring the landscapes this book is all about. they're extremely interesting, some in their far flung inaccessibility, but it was also nice to know what those big red hills around edinburgh are: the bings.
struggled slightly with the audiobook - i'd tune into the middle of a description and find i couldn't quite recall where was being described, even if i had been attentively listening to the intro - but at the same time, flyn narrates it really nicely.