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Nova Scotia, 1832. Midwife Jean Langille’s first love ended in quiet scandal: all she wants is to be left alone in her cottage by the shore, to do her work and forget she ever knew how to love at all.
Until a woman appears in the salt marsh behind Jean’s home in the dead of night. Beautiful and enigmatic, Muirin barely speaks a word of English. As Jean picks apart the knot of her silence and their connection deepens, she's stricken with growing unease that the woman's marriage to a reclusive fisherman may not be all it seems.
When Jean’s past comes calling, stirring up old rumours and drawing her relationship with Muirin into question, she finds herself caught up in a deadly foxhunt with a desperate man, in search of a stolen treasure. In this re-imagining of the selkie wife folktale, Jean must brave the depths of her own heart to save the woman she loves and untangle the secrets binding her before they become a net to drag down Jean and Muirin both.
‘A Sweet Sting of Salt’ is much better than I'd hoped! It's one of those books that worms its way under your skin and suddenly you find yourself reading far longer than you intended.
Charming, and gripping, and unexpected. It’s set in 1830 in Nova Scotia, and the main character is a midwife who falls hard for a Scottish woman who lives just up the coast and over the hill. But the story is about far more than them. All of the secondary characters, except for two, are interesting in their own right. There are animals we come to care for, (and I still want to know what happens to the fox!), people with backstories only hinted at, and I would totally be there for another story set in that village. The LGBT content isn’t flung in your face, and is very sweet. In fact, this is the sort of book I would be happy to read to my mother or grandmother!
Here’s the author’s website;
Rose Sutherland
If you’re looking to broaden your reading horizons, and you like your fiction with a hint of mythology, this might be the book for you. Check it out!