Fletcher gives readers a strong plot, enough vivid passages to compensate for the occasional dull spot, and a triumphant heroine in Corrag, whose travails are truly epic. Corrag spins colorful if sometimes meandering tales of the unfriendly English countryside and the fleeting joy of having found, in the clan, a place where she can be accepted Charles is harder to pin down, and he often functions as a placeholder until his abrupt shift into a pivotal role late in the book. Corrag leads Charles through her lonely childhood: her mother hanged for witchcraft, Corrag fled her hometown and lived hand to mouth before gaining the protection of the MacDonald clan. Moira, eleven years older, spends the evenings at her sister's bedside, telling the story her own lifeher secrets, her shameful actions, and her link to the accident that has brought Amy to this bed. Her interrogator is Charles Leslie, a Catholic loyalist traveling in disguise who is seeking information that may implicate the Protestant king William in the murders. The only witness to the massacre of the MacDonald clan, Corrag sits in a village jail under a death sentence for her supposed supernatural involvement in the killings. Read Jordan Peterson’s non-fiction Shop now. Her novel, A Little in Love was published by Chicken House in October 2014. She is the author of Eve Green, Witch Light and The Dark Silver Sea. The inspirational sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE. About Susan Fletcher: Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham.
She is the author of the bestselling EVE GREEN, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, WITCH LIGHT and OYSTERCATCHERS. The plight of an accused witch in late 17th-century Britain inspires confusion, then pity, in her only visitor in Fletcher's engrossing historical (after Oystercatchers). Find Oystercatchers by Fletcher, Susan at Biblio. Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham.
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