WITCH LIGHT

Susan Fletcher

Publié par FOURTH ESTATE, le 03 mars 2011

Résumé

The new novel from Susan Fletcher, author of the bestselling ''Eve Green'' and ''Oystercatchers''.1692. Corrag, a wild young girl from the mountains of Scotland, has been imprisoned as a witch. Terrified, in a cold, filthy cell, she awaits her fate of death by burning - until she is visited by Charles Leslie, a young Irishman, hungry to question her. For Corrag knows more than it seems: she was witness to the bloody and brutal Massacre of Glencoe.But to reveal what she knows, Corrag demands a chance to tell her true story. It is a tale of passion and courage, magic and betrayal, and the difference that a single heart can make to the great events of history.