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Scotland, Historical fiction
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- Hardback Aug 8, 2023 | 9781529345933 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
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- Trade Paperback May 9, 2023 | 9781529345940 | RRP $32.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Aug 8, 2023 | 9781529345933 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
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- Trade Paperback May 9, 2023 | 9781529345940 | RRP $32.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Aug 8, 2023 | 9781529345933 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
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1884. A tenement room-and-kitchen flat in Rutherglen, near Glasgow. A woman with stark injuries to her face and her mind and a man recently arrived from America spend the night together. Through facing their shared past and the brutal events of 30 years ago, they can finally glimpse a future of new possibilities.
'Wonderful and moving' Clare Chambers
'Utterly absorbing' Sunday Post
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINSTON GRAHAM HISTORICAL PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE
Jamesina Ross is long finished with men. But one night a stranger seeking lodgings knocks on the door of her tenement flat. He doesn't recognise her, but she remembers him at once. Not that she plans to mention it. She has no intention of trusting anyone enough to let herself be vulnerable again.
A lifetime ago, growing up in a Highland glen, Jamesina Ross wrote songs about the land and the kin who had worked it for generations. But her music was no match for the violence her community faced in the Highland Clearances. Jamesina has borne the disfigurements of that day ever since, on her face and inside her head. Her lodger thinks that if she would only dare to open the past, she might have the chance of a future.
This is a story about resilience, memory, resurrection - and those parts of who we are that nobody can take away.
A beautiful exploration of unlooked-for love in later life, its contrariness and its awkward, surprising joys, this is a story about resilience, memory, resurrection - and those parts of who we are that nobody can take away.
More books by Sally Magnusson
Praise for Music in the Dark
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I absolutely loved this book. An important and brutal historical event - but also a tender and unusual love story. It gave me writer envy
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Music in the Dark is a beautifully-written piece of work, achieved with immense skill. The portrayal of Jamesina Ross as she is shattered and put back together by the light-touch constancy of Niall Munro is perfectly balanced. The minute focus on these two individuals tells a huge story of the C19th Highlands, Glasgow and North America that readers will find deeply affecting
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Truer to the reality of clearance and what came after than many ostensibly factual accounts of those events
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An engrossing, beautifully written novel about the Highland Clearances and the long-term physical, emotional and psychological damage done to those who were forced from their homes and homeland. Like all good historical fiction, it both illuminates the past and speaks eloquently to the present
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A wonderful and moving story, beautifully told . . . an episode of history brought vividly to life
Sally Magnusson
Bestselling author, journalist and broadcaster Sally Magnusson has written several books for adults and children, most recently her Sunday Times bestseller Where Memories Go (2014) about her mother's dementia, The Sealwoman's Gift (2018), her acclaimed debut novel and The Ninth Child (2020).
Sally has inherited a rich storytelling tradition from her Scottish and Icelandic forebears. The Sealwoman's Gift was a Radio 2 Book Club and ITV Zoe Ball Book Club selection, and was shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year, the Paul Torday Memorial Prize, the McKitterick Prize, the Waverton Good Read Award and the HWA Debut Fiction Crown.
Sally lives outside Glasgow. Loch Katrine and the surrounding area have long been a favourite haunt.
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