The Highland Witch, Susan Fletcher
The Highland Witch, Susan Fletcher
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The Highland Witch

Author: Susan Fletcher

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Unabridged: 12 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/28/2011


Synopsis

A breathtaking novel of passion and betrayal in seventeenthcentury Scotland and the portrait of an unforgettable heroine February 13, 1692. Thirtyeight members of the MacDonald clan are killed by soldiers who had previously enjoyed the clans hospitality. Many more die from exposure. Forty miles south, brilliant, captivating Corragaccused witch and orphaned herbalistis imprisoned in the Scottish highlands for her involvement in the massacre. As she awaits her death, she tells her story to Charles Leslie, an Irish propagandist who seeks information she may have condemning the Protestant King William. Hers is a story of passion, courage, love, and the magic of the natural world. By telling it, she transforms both their lives.As in her awardwinning debut novel, Eve Green, Susan Fletcher shows that she is a novelist with the soul of a poet (Booklist). This deeply philosophical and dramatic book is about an epic historic event and the difference a single heart can makeand how deep and lasting relationships can come from the most unlikely places.

About Susan Fletcher

Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham. She is the author of the bestselling Eve Green (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award), Oystercatchers and Witch Light - and most recently, the much-lauded Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi

Haunting and beautiful, Corrag drew me in and transported me to the Scottish Highlands of the seventeenth century. Alternately titled The Highland Witch or Witch Light, Corrag is a magical story about opening your heart to the beauty of your surroundings. It is about learning to truly understand the......more

Goodreads review by Debra

“We are the Magick--we are. The truest magick in this world is in us... It is in our movements and in what we say and feel.” This was such a beautifully written book that is based on a real event - the Massacre of Glencoe. A massacre which took place at 5am on February 13. 1692 when thirty-eight......more

Goodreads review by Jaline

Corrag is in a dark cell with shackles on her wrists, chained to the wall. It is winter, but as soon as the Spring thaw arrives, she will be burned at the stake as a witch. Reverend Charles Leslie, adopting his wife’s maiden name for a disguise, arrives in the town to find out information about the G......more

Goodreads review by Katie

I’m going to use this review as a rant at generic romance fiction. The kind that has an uncritical view of romantic love, deploys a formulaic structure of expectation and reimbursement, like readily assembled furniture, and at no point is self-aware of the smoke screens it’s pedalling. Probably the......more