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Alyson Thomson has left the city for a simpler life on an abandoned farm with her lover, Walker, a potter. Wandering there, she uncovers, in the ruins of a log cabin, the writings of a young woman who lived more than a hundred years before. Into Alyson's story Merilyn Simonds weaves the moving tale of Margaret MacBayne, who, with her family, left behind hardship in a seaside Scottish town in the hope of building a new home in the Canadian wilderness. Margaret, an expert on herbs, contemplates revenge when her brothers rob her of her happiness. When Alyson too suffers great loss, she must decide if retribution is worth the price. Taut and uplifting, sensuous and astute, The Holding is psychologically complex and beautifully rendered. Simonds brings us an intimate journey of discovery into the things we keep most guarded, whose truths often lie in unexpected places.… (más)
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I am a woman Alone in all the wide World.
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Margaret hears her name and turns to see her mother running along the cliff-edge, the yellow flowers of the gorge a shifting flame against the dark sky of the woman's skirts.
The wind, like a gossip, is everywhere.
The tide is turning, the sea withdrawing into itself, allowing its bones to show. Soon the men on the seawall will slip the ropes from the bollards and the emigrant ship, the Deirdre, will sail out to sea, past the May Isle, which in that troubled light of early spring seems to hover over the Firth.
She could no more imagine a forest than she could forget the sea.
My name is Margaret Jannet and I come from Pittenweem, where the mother of my mother's mother's mother, Jannet Cornfoot, died condemned a Witch.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
As the breeze died down, earth-scents rose to take its place.
Alyson Thomson has left the city for a simpler life on an abandoned farm with her lover, Walker, a potter. Wandering there, she uncovers, in the ruins of a log cabin, the writings of a young woman who lived more than a hundred years before. Into Alyson's story Merilyn Simonds weaves the moving tale of Margaret MacBayne, who, with her family, left behind hardship in a seaside Scottish town in the hope of building a new home in the Canadian wilderness. Margaret, an expert on herbs, contemplates revenge when her brothers rob her of her happiness. When Alyson too suffers great loss, she must decide if retribution is worth the price. Taut and uplifting, sensuous and astute, The Holding is psychologically complex and beautifully rendered. Simonds brings us an intimate journey of discovery into the things we keep most guarded, whose truths often lie in unexpected places.
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