By Susan Fletcher
A breathtaking novel of ardour and betrayal in seventeenth-century Scotland, and the portrait of an unforgettable heroine accused of witchcraft.
February thirteen, 1692. Thirty-eight individuals of the MacDonald extended family are killed by way of squaddies who had formerly loved the clan's hospitality. Many extra die from publicity. 40 miles south, the appealing Corrag is imprisoned for her involvement within the bloodbath. Accused of witchcraft and homicide, she awaits her loss of life. Lonesome, she tells her tale to Charles Leslie, an Irish propagandist who seeks details to sentence the Protestant King William, rumored to be desirous about the bloodbath. Hers is a narrative of ardour, braveness, love, and the magic of the wildlife. through telling it, she transforms either their lives.
As in her award-winning debut novel, Eve Green, Susan Fletcher exhibits that she is "a novelist with the soul of a poet" (Booklist). This deeply philosophical and dramatic publication is set an epic historical occasion and the variation a unmarried center can make―how deep and lasting relationships can come from the main not going places.
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Not of bloodied things. I will think of the end of the northern ridge. How my hair blew all about me. How I saw the glen go light and dark with clouds, or how he said you’ve changed me, as he stood by my side. I thought this is the place, as I stood there. I thought this is my place—mine, where I was meant for. It was waiting for me, and I found it, in the end. No rivers for me, now. No bogs. Now I am in chains. I’m in a half-dark cell with shackles on my wrists, and wet straw to lie upon. A cracked bucket.
She was like no other human I have ever known. Her eyelashes brushed her cheekbones. Her laugh was many shrieks in a line, like how a bird does when a fox comes by it. She wore a blood-red skirt, which is why she wore it, I think—for when our pig died, his blood didn’t show on it at all. Nor did berry juices, or mud. When she spun on her toes those skirts lifted up, like a wing—as if she might fly far away. Cora lapped up the morning dew, cat-like. She rustled with all the herbs she’d picked, and she told future times, and most of the men looked twice at her as she passed, and smiled.
CORRAG ALSO BY SUSAN FLETCHER Oystercatchers Eve Green CORRAG Susan Fletcher W. W. NORTON & COMPANY New York · London Copyright © 2010 by Susan Fletcher All rights reserved For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, W. W. , 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fletcher, Susan, 1979– Corrag / Susan Fletcher. p. cm. ISBN: 978-0-393-08046-9 1. Witches—Scotland—History—17th century—Fiction. 2. Jacobites—Fiction.