Bone Deep- Sandra Ireland
Lucie has just started working for Mac as a sort of P.A. typing up her work and doing other
jobs around the house. Mac, who is retired and in her seventies, writes about history which
keeps her occupied. She is currently writing about “the Cruel Sisters”. Based on legend with
her own take of events. Is her wok a reflection of what is happening to Lucie? Her son
Arthur still lives at home. Home has an old water mill although Lucie has a fear of water.
She also has a secret. One that when Mac finds a poem that Lucie has written gives her
a clue. Chapters alternate between Mac and Lucie to give each their own point of view
as to what is happening. Scenes are beautifully described and there is that undercurrent
that you know something, just something isn’t quite as it should be. Everyone has their
secrets and the cast of this book are no different, they all appear to want to hide
something from one another. Mac comes across as rather odd at times, Is it her health
(she occasionally calls Lucie, Anna) as if her mind is elsewhere. Or is she just being clever?
This has rather dark parts in it amongst the secrets and legends that Mac writes about.
A different read and an interesting one.
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What happens when you fall in love with the wrong
person? It’s a tale as old as time, and one with devastating
consequences through the ages.
Bone Deep is a contemporary novel of love, betrayal,
female rivalry, and murder – themes that echo across
time. The enigmatic Lucie has arrived in the village of
Fettermore, her past a seemingly closed book. She works
for Mac, who is compiling a volume of local folk tales for
publication but, at the same time, is determined to keep
the truth of her own past from her grown-up son, Arthur.
Over the course of a year, their lives and stories intertwine
inexorably to reveal their secrets.
The creaking presence of a disused watermill is the novel’s
eerie backdrop. Once the hub of village life, its deep pond
and indiscriminate, voracious millstones bear witness to
the legend of two long-dead sisters, themselves rivals in
love, ready to point an accusing finger from the pages of
history. Ireland plays deftly with the ancient ballad of the
‘Two Sisters’ and the archetypal lore of the mill, an engine
which harnesses awesome natural power for human ends.
While Arthur, the 21st century miller, is the baker for the
local coffee shop, the collision of Lucie and Mac’s lives is
about to bring the mill’s age-old mysteries to the surface.
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Sandra Ireland was born in Yorkshire, lived for many
years in Limerick, and is now based in Scotland. She
began her writing career as a correspondent on a local
newspaper but quickly realised that fiction is much more
intriguing than fact. She returned to higher education
her 40s, to study for undergraduate and postgraduate
degrees at Dundee University. In 2016 she won Creative
Scotland funding for a residency at Barry Mill, a National
Trust for Scotland property. Her debut novel was Beneath
the Skin (Polygon, 2016). She lives in Carnoustie and is
available for interview.
Bone Deep
Sandra Ireland
£8.99 paperback
ISBN 9781846974182
Published 5th July 2018
Also available as an eBook
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