by Sarah Maine
Rating: ★★★
isbn: 9781760297046
Publication Date: April 26, 2017
Pages: 385
Genre: Fiction, Historical
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Following the deaths of her last living relatives, Hetty Deveraux leaves her strained marriage behind in London and journeys to Scotland to inspect her inheritance: her ancestral home, now in ruins. As Hetty dives headfirst into the repairs, she discovers a shocking secret protected by the house for a hundred years.
With only whispered rumours circulating among the local villagers and a handful of leads to guide her, Hetty finds the power of the past is still affecting her present in startling ways.
Another LT recommendation, and to use my father’s phrase, it was fair to middlin’.
The book is well written and the plots (dual time lines) were well constructed. The story just didn’t do it for me. My cockles weren’t warmed and my attention wasn’t hooked. The present day POV kept me reading far longer than I should have, while the past POV had me bored and the trope had me rolling my eyes.
Just really not my jam.
I would, however, totally live somewhere that’s only accessible during low tides.