โ Scribed by Caroline Lea
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In the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca**--** The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a foreboding landscape and the superstitions of the local villagers.
"Gripped me in a cold fist. Beautiful." --Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"Crackles with tension. Moving and atmospheric, I couldn't put it down." --Laura Purcell, author of The Silent Companions and The Corset
Rosa has always dreamed of living a simple life alongside her Mamma in their remote village in Iceland, where she prays to the Christian God aloud during the day, whispering enchantments to the old gods alone at night. But after her father dies abruptly and her Mamma becomes ill, Rosa marries herself off to a visiting trader in...
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