The Almost Sisters
8.5
Rate It
Book
Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics...
The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe: Burial Practices and Images of the Hallstatt World
Book
Identities and social relations are fundamental elements of societies. To approach these topics from...
Winifred Knights 1899-1947: Lost Artist of the Slade School
Book
Winifred Knights (1899-1947) is one of the outstanding, but until recently neglected, British women...
Holiday with the Mystery Italian: Holiday with the Mystery Italian / a Cowboy's Wish Upon a Star
Book
Holiday with the Mystery Italian by Ellie Darkins Since the accident that paralysed him, Italian...
Funny How Things Turn Out: Love, Death and Unsuitable Husbands - a Mother and Daughter Story
Book
Muriel Newmarch was born in North London in 1903. She died in 2009, aged 106. Judith Bruce is her...
The Ninth Child
10.0
Rate It
Book
A spellbinding novel combining Scottish folklore with hidden history, by the Sunday Times...
Victorian Scotland Scottish Folklore Social reforms
The Sealwoman's Gift
8.0
Rate It
Book
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN, THE WAVERTON GOOD READ AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE BEST FIRST...
Historical Fiction
Elsey Come Home
Book
From the widely praised author of Paris Was the Place—a shattering new novel that bravely delves...
ClareR (6106 KP) rated A Woman Made of Snow in Books
Nov 9, 2021
Caro and Alasdair marry after the War and move back to his family home - Kelly Castle in Scotland. Caro has high hopes of continuing to work in a university, but motherhood puts pay to that, and instead decides to look into the Gillan family genealogy, and specifically the mysterious disappearance of Alasdair’s great grandmother. When Caro finds the remains of a diary, there are some startling findings.
We flash back and forth between 1949 and the 1800s, where the information missing from the diary is more clearly explained. When a body is unearthed after flooding, this poses more questions about he person’s identity. Is this the missing relative?
I absolutely loved this. The descriptions of the sea, the Arctic tundra and the Inuit who lived there, fascinated me. Less pleasant were the attitudes of the British towards other cultures, but this was interesting, all the same. The changing roles of women was portrayed well. Whilst not the same as our lives today, Caro’s life in the 1940’s/ 50’s was markedly better than that of the women in the 1800s.
This was such an enjoyable read - highly recommended.
Thanks to The Pigeonhole for serialising this wonderful book.
Silent as the Grave
5.0
Rate It
Book
Retired Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan goes undercover in the next book in the New York Times...