A Salt Splashed Cradle - Couverture souple

Livre 1 sur 2: Watt Family Saga

Longmuir, Chris

 
9780957415317: A Salt Splashed Cradle
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0957415311 ISBN 13 : 9780957415317
Editeur : Barker & Jansen, 2012

Synopsis

A powerful historical family saga set on the storm-lashed coast of 1830s Scotland—where beauty, jealousy, and rigid tradition collide in a small fishing village.

In a remote village shaped by the sea and centuries of custom, outsiders are barely tolerated—and women are expected to know their place. So, when Jimmie Watt brings Belle to the village as his new bride, his mother, Annie, is furious. The Watt family name carries weight, and Belle—an incomer—is not the wife she expected. As Belle tries to find her place in the close-knit community, she faces isolation, judgment, and growing hostility from the women around her.

Belle tries to settle into her new life, but the village women see her as a threat to the fragile balance that holds their world together. Whispers begin. Eyes follow her. Doors begin to close.

When Jimmie leaves to sail with a whaling ship to the Arctic, Belle is left to fend for herself. Her growing liaison with Lachlan, the Laird’s son, only fuels the gossip. As tensions rise, the village turns cold—and then cruel.

Alone, outcast, and surrounded by rising hostility, Belle must decide whether to keep fighting for acceptance or walk away from everything.

Gripping, atmospheric, and deeply human, this is a story of isolation, resilience, and the cost of defying the rules in a community where conformity is survival.

Chris Longmuir is an award-winning novelist as well as an established writer of crime novels, short stories and articles.

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À propos de l?auteur

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Chris Longmuir is an award winning novelist who has published three novels in her Dundee Crime Series. Night Watcher, the first book in the series, won the Scottish Association of Writers' Pitlochry Award, and the sequel, Dead Wood, won the Dundee International Book Prize, as well as the Pitlochry Award. Missing Believed Dead is the third book in the series. Chris has recently published the first book in a new historical crime series which features Kirsty Campbell, Dundee's first policewoman. Her next book, to be published soon, is another Kirsty Campbell mystery set during the First World War.

Her crime novels are set in Dundee, Scotland, and have been described as scary, atmospheric, page turners. Chris also writes historical sagas, short stories and historical articles which have been published in America and Britain. She has also published a historical family saga to Kindle. Writing is like an addiction to me, Chris says, I go into withdrawals without it.

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Éditeur
Barker & Jansen
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0957415311
ISBN 13 
9780957415317
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
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