This book is emotionally gripping, thought-provoking, frightening and beautiful. It’s a great mystery, and a statement of how overpowering and destructive spiritual fanaticism can be. Meldrum doesn’t demand that readers accept any specific religious or mythical belief. Even so, the characters mak...
Aslaug is kept very isolated from society by her mother who claims she is a miracle brought into this life from a 'virgin birth'. As the story makes progress Aslaug's mother dies from illness, and she is thrown into an unknown world to her. A world where she is believed to have committed arson an...