The Island House

 The Island House

Reviewed By  Ian Banks       November 26, 2014

 

Author  Posie Greame-Evans

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ISBN:                 978-107-318-1508-1
Publisher:         Simon & Schuster
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Website:    http://www.simonandschuster.com.au 

When Freya Dane arrives at the island of Findnar off the Scottish Coast, an Island her archaeologist father had purchased, little does she really know of the traditional and violent past of the island.

Her father, in his time working on the Island, until his untimely death in a boating accident, had uncovered much of the tradition and lifestyle. As she works her way through her father’s notes she finds the past reaching across to the present with the terrifying events of the past slowly unfolding.

Signy, is a young 10 year old girl orphaned in terrifying Viking raids in 800AD. Her story reaches out from past times becoming entwined with Freya, also an archaeologist, as she slowly peels back the layers of time finding she becomes embroiled in the wrongs of the past.

As Freya discovers these wrongs must be put right before peace can once again be restored to Findnar plunging both Freya in her modern world and Signy in her ancient world back into danger.

All the while Freya is learning and discovering more about the father she never really new and his work on the island.

Fascinating and enveloping this is a sojourn in history coupled with a love story as each woman’s life is intensely powerful but both are emotionally interchangeable over the centuries.

Fiction