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. B

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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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