num_pages: 444
description: Nearing the end of her life Meggie Tulloch takes up her pen to write a story for her granddaughter Laura. It begins in the first years of the twentieth century in a place where howling winds spin salt and sleet sucked up from ice floes. A place where lives are ruled by men and men by the witchy sea. A place where the only thing lower than a girl in the order of things is a clever girl with accursed red hair. A place schooled in keeping secrets. Thirty years after her grandmother's death Laura receives her notebooks and discovers the painful past that Meggie spent a lifetime trying to forget. Moving from the north-east of Scotland to the Shetland Isles to Fremantle Australia Elemental is a novel about the life you make from the life you are given.
language: English
title: Elemental
publisher: UWA Publishing