The Swell - Kat Gordon,The Swell - Kat Gordon - kniha z kategorie Sci-fi

In places of darkness, women will rise . . .Iceland, 1910. In the middle of a severe storm two sisters - Freyja and Gudrun - rescue a mysterious, charismatic man from a shipwreck near their remote farm.Sixty-five years later, a young woman - Sigga - is spending time with her grandmother when they learn a body has been discovered on a mountainside near Reykjavik, perfectly preserved in ice.Moving between the turn of the 20th century and the 1970s as a dark mystery is unravelled, The Swell is a spellbinding, beautifully atmospheric read, rich in Icelandic myth. Praise for THE SWELL'Thoroughly bewitching. Kat Gordon's spare prose is as beautiful as it is haunting' Freya Berry, author of The Birdcage Library 'Gripping, bewitching, and laced with atmosphere, reading The Swell was a wonderfully sensory experience' Harriet Constable, author of The Instrumentalist'A skilful, measured atmospheric mystery set in Iceland. . . Kat Gordon is a master storyteller' Cathryn Kemp, author of A Poisoner's Tale