However, in the case of Corrag, a fierce storm started up as soon as the boat set out for the island, forcing it to turn back to shore. Au début j’ai eu un peu de mal à rentrer dans l’histoire mais au fur et à mesure j’ai été envoûtée ensorcelée par la lecture. Once the author’s lyricism turns to romantic love I began to feel the absence of a rigorous intelligence informing the text.

Thank you to Candi for recommending this book as we exchanged comments on another review she had written.I hoped she'd be spared but didn't count on it, not after what was done to her mother and grandmother, not in that atmosphere and given the history of the place and time. I’ve had it with the hairs on my arms standing up, at the sound of a clan singing a fireside song, or with my eyes filling with tears at a simple, lovely sight. Although some of it strains credulity, I can live with that when my attention is captured as thoroughly as Susan Fletcher did.

More than once Corrag checks herself – "But I race ahead" – and one finds oneself impatiently wishing that she would. Je suis tombée amoureuse de l’Écosse de Corrag cette Écosse 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 sauvage et simple, comme le personnage de Charles au début j’étais sceptique je ne comprenais pas où m’emmenait l’autrice puis au fil des pages j’étais fascinée apaisée par ma lecture, tout comme Charles qui au début voit en Corrag un être diabolique et qui va comprendre qu’elle n’est qu’une simple femme qui ne cherche pas à nuire mais plutôt à survivre. She is forced to leave her mother who will be burned at the stake for witchcraft and flees to the Scottish highlands. Corrag takes the old and beaten horse of a cruel neighbour, a grey mare who becomes her best and only friend, and spends the next year living off the land and making her way north-west where she arrives in Glencoe. Set in the Highlands of Scotland, 1692, the title character Corrag has been branded a witch for warning the MacDonalds of Glencoe of an impending massacre.

Jaline, your review also enticed me to read this book, which deserves far more acclaim that it appears to have gotten. She found acceptance as a natural healer, a special relationship, and relative peace in her new surroundings. I know who you are…it is better for her that she is burnt, and soon…The fire will clean her of wickedness, and to be purified in death is far better than to live in this manner - unChristian, defiled. You will love this book if you see the beauty of nature, if you love walking under a starry night sky, if you have heard and seen and experienced the beauty of a cold winter night or a motionless stag or rabbits frolicking on a field in spring.

The conversion takes place while he is interviewing a witch in prison who is about to be burned for her crimes. Alternately titled The Highland Witch or Witch Light, Corrag is a magical story about opening your heart to the beauty of your surroundings. Fletcher sets up the novel with alternating chapters told by Corrag, a young woman accused of witchcraft: "I wait for it - death. but all of them--from the snow, to his fern-red hair, to my mare's eye reflecting the sky as she smelt the air of Rannoch Moor--have light in them, and are worth it. Most heartening of all was witnessing the changes in the character and voice of Charles - both through the voice of his wife Jane and Corrags stories.The way Corrag tells her tale to Charles Leslie is through heart and feeling, and by extension these are the same ways in which the reader can feel so deeply her apprpeciation of the small beauties in life, her unrequited love, and her peace in loneliness. She tells her story to Charles, who believes at first she should be executed, but as Corrag tells her story.