Review: Powerful!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 8, 2013
Read this book in one sitting not just because it is a relatively short read but mainly because the story is very captivating. When we meet the main character, Sarah, she is at the lowest emotional point of her life, so much so that she doesn't want to go on living. As an anthropologist, she is brought in on a dig in Scotland where two bog bodies are unearthed, their bodies preserved in the peat for hundreds of years. Perhaps it's her very vulnerable state and emotional openness that allows Sarah access to experience visions of the life that the bog people have lived but whether it be her over-active imagination or not, their story carries such resonances with Sarah's current life that despite the turbalent life story of the bog victims and the manner in which they died, through their story Sarah finds meaning for her own life and develops a strength to go, which is powerful. This story will make you feel as well as think and is so visually immediate that I can't understand Hollywood not wanting this as their very next movie. It's that good.