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WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018! ******* 'Scotland's Outer Hebrides provides the sensuous setting for this impressive debut...a beautifully crafted novel' - Publishers Weekly 'Lovely atmospheric descriptions of Hebridean light and landscape' - The Scotsman A captivating story of a crumbling estate in the wilds of Scotland, its century-old secret and an enduring mystery... Following the death of her last living relative, Hetty Deveraux leaves London and her strained relationship behind for Muirlan, her ancestral home in Scotland - now in ruins. As Hetty dives headfirst into the repairs, she discovers a shocking secret protected by the house for a hundred years. With only whispered rumours circulating among the local villagers and a handful of leads to guide her, Hetty finds the power of the past is still affecting her present in startling ways. 'There is an echo of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca in Sarah Maine's appealing debut novel' The Independent *previously published as Bhalla Strand*

On the rugged, sea-lashed coast of west Scotland lies Ullaness: home to the Scottish legend of Ulla, a Viking woman who washed up on Scottish shores centuries ago. The legend will bring the stories of three different women together. In AD 800 there is Ulla, lost in a foreign country after her lover is brutally killed. Ellen, a servant-girl in the 1800s, catches the unwanted attentions of the master of the house's lascivious son. And, in the present day, there is Libby - an archaeologist who is determined to uncover an age-old mystery. When a body is excavated from Ullaness - the body of someone who was murdered long ago - the mystery deepens, and the fates of the three women become ever more tightly bound

Sarah Maine's immersive and compelling novel explores the struggle by two women, divided across centuries, for control over their lives.

A beautiful and evocative historical novel that takes the reader to the west coast of New Zealand, Scotland and Melbourne in the 1870s

A spellbinding and beautiful novel from a major new voice in fiction, perfect for fans of Sarah Perry, Eowyn Ivey and Stef Penney

A sweeping and atmospheric story of family ties, interwoven mysteries, love and redemption, set between Scotland and Newfoundland, from the author of Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year The House Between Tides

Schottland 1893: Die 19jährige Evelyn Ballantyre macht sich auf, ihren Vater auf eine Reise nach Kanada zu begleiten. So kann sie die Grenzen des herrschaftlichen Anwesens hinter sich lassen, das für sie in den letzten Jahren eher ein Gefängnis als ein Zuhause war. Seit jener schicksalhaften Nacht, in der zwei Menschen starben, und ihr Jugendfreund, der Stallbursche James Douglas, der Tat beschuldigt fliehen musste. Doch als sie in der kanadischen Wildnis unverhofft auf James trifft, drängen die dunklen Geheimnisse der Vergangenheit an die Oberfläche. Und Evelyn muss sich entscheiden, wo ihre Zukunft liegt …