![]() ![]() Orphans who were carted off to strangers (for the most part) indentured servants. And true to form, I want to digress for a moment and write about the ‘ homers‘ in this story. For me, the reader, it spoils it to be given the plot on a plate. When a body turns up in a bog the remains could be a month old, several decades old, and in some instances, centuries old.Īs I’ve mentioned before I’m not a reviewer who fills the page with a synopsis of the story. But peat bogs flourish and provide fuel for heat in the oldest tradition of the Gaelic world. And trees for shelter and fuel? Forget that. ![]() There is little soil on these rocks jutting out of the sea. And that is at the core of why his characters are so intriguing and entertaining. ![]() A sky that leaks sunlight in momentary flashes to spill across dead grasses where the white tips of bog cotton dip and dive in frantic eddies of turbulent air….” ( prose at its best!)Īfter reading about the people settled there one wonders why they stay. ![]() He plunks me down in the stark, forbidding Outer Hebrides, a group of islands northwest of Scotland and bared to the North Atlantic Sea. I rarely see ‘color’ in his books….and that’s high praise. A REVIEW The Lewis Man by international best selling author, Peter May ![]()
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