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Corrag Susan Fletcher

Corrag By Susan Fletcher

Corrag by Susan Fletcher


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Summary

The new novel from Susan Fletcher, author of the bestselling Eve Green and Oystercatchers.

Corrag Summary

Corrag by Susan Fletcher

The new novel from Susan Fletcher, author of the bestselling Eve Green and Oystercatchers.

TThe Massacre of Glencoe happened at 5am on 13th February 1692 when thirty-eight members of the Macdonald clan were killed by soldiers who had enjoyed the clan's hospitality for the previous ten days. Many more died from exposure in the mountains.

Fifty miles to the south Corrag is condemned for her involvement in the Massacre. She is imprisoned, accused of witchcraft and murder, and awaits her death. The era of witch-hunts is coming to an end - but Charles Leslie, an Irish propagandist and Jacobite, hears of the Massacre and, keen to publicise it, comes to the tollbooth to question her on the events of that night, and the weeks preceding it. Leslie seeks any information that will condemn the Protestant King William, rumoured to be involved in the massacre, and reinstate the Catholic James.

Corrag agrees to talk to him so that the truth may be known about her involvement, and so that she may be less alone, in her final days. As she tells her story, Leslie questions his own beliefs and purpose - and a friendship develops between them that alters both their lives.

In Corrag, Susan Fletcher tells us the story of an epic historic event, of the difference a single heart can make - and how deep and lasting relationships that can come from the most unlikely places.

Corrag Reviews

Praise for Oystercatchers:

'Fletcher has a remarkable talent with wordsher approach to the world is side-on, not direct; she is attuned to the ambiguities, the spaces, the gaps left in language, the things that are not spoken; she imbues inanimate objects with a life of their own, a history and a personality and a voice. Fletcher is the woman writer par excellence: intelligent, perceptive, intuitiveBritish readers looking for a local equivalent to Alice Munro won't have to look much furtherShe is a highly talented writer and fully deserves the acclaim she has received - and the popularity that goes with it.' The Scotsman

'Oystercatchers is a stunning novelboth emotionally discomfiting and romantic; at times puzzling, it is profound, beautiful and redemptive. Oystercatchers is the work of a seriously talented young author in possession of one of the most poetic and original voices working now.' Joanna Briscoe, Guardian

'Her prose is extraordinarily lyrical: haunted, dreamlike and precise, reminiscent at times of Sylvia PlathFletcher's words are undeniably beautiful and her themes are profounda haunting novel.' Sunday Times

About Susan Fletcher

Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham. She is the author of the bestselling Eve Green and Oystercatchers.

Additional information

GOR002673100
9780007350698
0007350694
Corrag by Susan Fletcher
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
2010-03-04
368
Short-listed for John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2010
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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