Island of Wings - Softcover

Karin Altenberg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857382330 ISBN 13: 9780857382337

Publisher: riverrun, 2012

Synopsis

Island of Wings

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Review:

'A beautiful story of love and loss, precise, subtle, spiritually alive' Andrew O'Hagan.

'This lovely, haunting novel evokes the rough beauty of St Kilda ... A story of faith and love' The Times.

'Stunning' Guardian.

'Her literary achievement is astonishing ... A superb book' Scotsman. --Reviews.

From the Back Cover:

July, 1830. On the ten-hour sailing west from the Hebrides to the islands of St Kilda, everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil MacKenzie. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders and Lizzie, his new wife, is pregnant with their first child. Neil's journey is evangelical: a testing and strengthening of his own faith against the old pagan ways of the St Kildans, but it is also a passage to atonement. For Lizzie - bright, beautiful and devoted - this is an adventure, a voyage into the unknown. As the two adjust to life on an exposed archipelago on the edge of civilization, where the natives live in squalor and babies perish mysteriously in their first week, their marriage - and their sanity - is threatened. Is Lizzie a wilful temptress drawing him away from his faith? Is Neil's zealous Christianity unhinging into madness? And who, or what, is haunting the moors and cliff-tops? Exquisitely written and profoundly moving, Island of Wings is more than just an account of a marriage in peril - it is also a richly imagined novel about two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of terrible hardship and tumultuous beauty.

About this edition

• Publisher: riverrun
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857382330
• ISBN 13: 9780857382337
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384