Susanna Kearsley and Sarah Maine: Fiction Across the Centuries
Novelists Susanna Kearsley and Sarah Maine have found common ground, despite being separated by an ocean, join them at the Mitchell Library as they discuss their books as part of Aye Write 2022!
About Susanna Kearsley and Sarah Maine: Fiction Across the Centuries
Two novelists who find common ground, despite being separated by an ocean.
Canada based Susanna Kearsley’s The Vanished Days is a story of intrigue, adventure, endurance, romance... and the courage to hope.
Autumn, 1707. Old enemies from the Highlands to the Borders are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Union with England, the French are preparing to launch an invasion to carry the young, exiled Jacobite king back to Scotland to reclaim his throne. Queen Anne’s commissioners, seeking to calm the situation, have begun settling the losses and wages owed to those Scots who took part in the disastrous Darien expedition eight years earlier.
When Lily, the young widow of a Darien sailor, comes forward to collect her husband’s wages, her claim is challenged, and one of the men who’s assigned to examine her has only days to decide if she’s honest, or if his own feelings are making him blind to the truth, and if he’s being used as a pawn in an even more treacherous game.
Sarah Maine’s The Awakenings is an immersive and compelling novel that explores the struggle by two women, divided across centuries, for control over their lives, set against a beautiful historical backdrop.
Yorkshire, 1890. Having lost her father and brothers in tragic circumstances, Olwen Malkon is forced to leave her childhood home to live with her uncle's family. In his chill vicarage, however, she fears that she is also losing her mind, as strange dreams take her into the life of Ælfwyn, a woman from a distant past whose fate is overshadowed by menace and betrayal.
In the grip of these afflictions, Olwen finds sympathy with the local doctor, John Osbourne, who is intrigued by her case. As the dreams intensify, danger awaits them both. But when they begin to mirror reality, she and John start to suspect that it is these visions of the past which hold the answers...
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