num_pages: 373
description: From the author of the acclaimed novels The House Between Tides and Beyond the Wild River a rich atmospheric tale set on the sea-lashed coast of west Scotland in which the lives of a ninth-century Norsewoman a nineteenth-century woman and a twenty-first-century archeologist weave together after a body is discovered in the dunes.Libby Snow has always felt the pull of Ullanessm a lush Scottish island enshrouded in myth and deeply important to her family. Her great-great-grandmother Ellen was obsessed with the strange legend of Ulla a Viking maiden who washed up on shore with the nearly lifeless body of her husbandand who inspired countless epic poems and the islands name.Central to the mystery is an ornate chalice and Libby an archaeologist finally has permission to excavate the site where Ulla is believed to have lived. But what Libby finds in the ancient dunes is a body from the Victorian era clearly murderedand potentially connected to Ellen.What unfolds is an epic story that spans centuries with Libby mining Ellen and Ullas stories for clues about the body and in doing so discovering the darker threads that bind all three women together across history.Infused with Sarah Maines signature meticulous research and descriptive passages of lush beautiful landscapes (Publishers Weekly) Women of the Dunes is a beautifully told and compelling mystery for fans of Kate Morton and Beatriz Williams.
language: English
title: Women of the Dunes
publisher: Atria Books