Loved this beautiful little story and indebted to Tadiana Night Owl for making it possible for me to read it. **Review to Follow**

While reading this story, I found myself wishing it were a full-length novel and that I could know more about the two lovers who open the tale in 1879, the father and the little sister who is left behind. There was insufficient time to make me feel any real empathy with Perdita West or her male flirtation, Michael Gresham.

What Mary Stewart did masterfully (as indeed she always does) was make me believe I was walking on the lava covered ground of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, feeling the black sand between my toes. She made me feel the anxiety of being trapped inside the underwater cave with Perdita and the shock and import of her discovery there.

As a short-story it is a superb little piece. It aches to be fleshed out, however, (but not because it isn't constructed beautifully just as it sits but because one can sense how much more story there is that might have been told but wasn't.) Upon completion what I felt most keenly was the desire to have had more.

Again, my sincere appreciation at having been allowed to read this out-of-print and very difficult to obtain work of one of my favorite writers. ( )

Old style romance in exotic setting but much too short.

This little novella is a gem. Stewart brings Lanzarote to life effortlessly. The 1879 story is extremely brief but memorable while the adventures of Perdita and Cora are picture perfect and often humorous. As a person who will not step foot underground, I can attest to the fact that the scenes in which Perdita is trapped in an underwater cave can raise your blood pressure. (I also think I had a death grip on the book.)

So much goodness in so few pages. No wonder Mary Stewart was a bestselling author back in the day. Other than the lack of today's electronic accoutrements, The Wind Off the Small Isles holds up every bit as well as it did when first published. ( )

The Wind off the Small Isles is a short novella set in the Canary Islands. Travelling as a writer's companion, the heroine meets a handsome man and gets into trouble (What else would you expect from Mary Stewart?), only to accidentally discover the answer to an almost century-old mystery. Fun stuff, even if it felt a bit rushed. If you like Mary Stewart's other thrillers, you'll want to pick this one up to complete the set. ( )

A slight but enjoyable romance from Stewart. Not really suspense, although there is danger from the elements and an old mystery solved. This is too short to really develop the romance, but the characterizations are engaging. ( )