Celtic Myth Podshow
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The Celtic Myth Podshow will tell you ancient tales, stories, legends, folklore and mythology of...
The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
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From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and...
Star Wars: Original Trilogy
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Luke Skywalker dreamed of adventures out among the stars and alien worlds. But when he intercepted a...
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017
John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu
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Overview The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 by John Joseph Adams “This volume...
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ClareR (5721 KP) rated The Sealwoman's Gift in Books
Apr 29, 2019
We follow a Pastors family, Olafur and his wife Asta, as they and their family are kidnapped by corsairs and pirates, and sold off separately to their owners. Olafur is sent back to Denmark to seek a ransom, but he fails. So we follow the life of Asta, how she lives and adapts in the house of Cilleby, and how she copes with the loss of her children and husband.
The Icelandic Sagas are Asta’s Means of escape and comfort, and in telling them she gets Cilleby onside and makes her own life more comfortable. She refuses to give up her Lutheran belief, and believes that she will be reunited with her family - at least in death - because of this.
This was such a touching novel, and the narrator (I listened on Audible) really did the story justice.