Elemental
By: Amanda Curtin
Publisher: UWA Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Crawley, W.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781742585062
Subjects: Family secrets; Reminiscing in old age; Fiction
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 grandmothers death, Laura receives her notebooks and discovers the painful past that Meggie spent a lifetime trying to forget.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 436).
Table of contents: title: Meggie's notebooks; title: Coda; title: Glossary of Scots, Doric and Shetland words.