Maine skillfully balances a Daphne du Maurier atmosphere with a Barbara Vine-like psychological mystery...The setting emerges as the strongest personality in this compelling story, evoking passion in the characters as fierce as the storms which always lurk on the horizon. A debut historical thriller which deftly blends classic suspense with modern themes.
Kirkus Reviews
Scotland's Outer Hebrides provides ... Read morethe sensuous setting for [this] impressive debut...[a] beautifully crafted novel.
Publishers Weekly
...it came as a great surprise to learn that this was the author's debut novel. I predict great things for Sarah Maine
The Book Bag
A tremendous accomplishment. So assured, so well-judged, and with such an involving story to tell, this might be the author's fifth or sixth novel, not her first. A literary star is born!
Ronald Frame, author of The Lantern Bearers and Havisham There is an echo of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca in Sarah Maine's appealing debut novel
The Independent
Lovely atmospheric descriptions of Hebridean light and landscape
The Scotsman
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