Are there selkies?

Having read Alice Thomas Ellis's The Inn at the Edge of the World over the weekend, I'm going to say that Sally Thomas's recommendations seem to be good ones. How to describe the book? It's about people who are variously depressed or lost in the world, and how they interact when they try to avoid Christmas at an inn in far north Scotland, and it's a ghost story. If you're quick, you can read it in an evening.