Corrag

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But that is merely the framework around which a thousand poignant, glorious, and tragic details are woven. This beauty is eventually destroyed by the massacre of the MacDonalds at the hands of the soldiers, their own guests.

It's hard to review a book that 2 trusted friends love and revere, because, even though you may like the book, maybe there is something missing for you. The descriptions of the Scottish highlands are so vivid and memorable they mark your mind with beauty and life-giving presence. The themes that dapple the novel are love of nature, getting in touch with one’s heart, futility of hatred and violence, tolerance of others’ values and compassion for all living creatures. This historical novel combines the Jacobite uprisings of the 1690s with the terrible witch-hunts of Britain which were only repealed in 1735, the last three hundred years before that in which hundreds of thousands of woman were persecuted-for ridiculous things, for being independent,, eccentric, for knowing herb lore, for living alone.Whether through fear of her powers or gratitude for her warnings, after Corrag’s death it was decided that she should be buried on Eilean Munde, a sacred burial island usually reserved for clansmen. But, if one sits down with a human being and really gets to know them, the truth may transform us, as it did Charles.

Every tiny thing is spoken of with such love and passion and she notices everything – a dew drop on a leaf, the changing colours of the rocks through the day, the silver sand as the grey mare gallops over beaches in the moonlight. I felt as if I sat with Charles in that cell and grew to understand and love Corrag throughout the course of the novel. or Was she freer than most because she lived life on her terms with an open heart and positive attitude?We learn of her beginnings, of her mother and grandmother, both also labelled witch, and how she ended up in the Highlands, befriending the MacDonalds’.