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Zusatztext “Buchanan skillfully depicts the day-to-day life of the people she calls the ‘bog dwellers’ and the changes introduced to their Iron Age society by the invading Romans . . . . she adds enough historical detail to make her story believable and enjoyable.” Informationen zum Autor CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN ’s work has been translated into nine languages. Her previous novel, The Painted Girls , was a #1 national bestseller in Canada and a New York Times bestseller. Lavished with praise, it was selected as a People pick, included in Entertainment Weekly ’s “Must List,” and named a best book of the year by NPR, Good Housekeeping and Goodreads . Her debut novel, The Day the Falls Stood Still , was a New York Times bestseller and is one of the Canada Reads Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade. Buchanan holds a BSc (Honours Biochemistry) and an MBA from Western University. Born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario, she now lives in Toronto. Connect with Cathy: WEB: CATHYMARIEBUCHANAN.COM TWITTER: @CATHYMBUCHANAN FACEBOOK: FACEBOOK.COM/CATHYMARIEBUCHANAN Zusammenfassung By the bestselling author of The Painted Girls When a remote, ancient settlement is threatened, it is up to one girl to save her family and her community It’s the season of Fallow, the first century AD. In a misty northern bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat fields, lies a settlement far beyond the reach of the Roman invaders, who are still hundreds of miles to the southeast. Here, life is simple, or so it seems to the tightly knit community. Sow. Reap. Honour Mother Earth, who will provide at harvest time. A girl named Devout comes of age. She flirts sweetly with the young man who has tilled the earth alongside her all her life, envisioning a future of love and abundance. Seventeen years later, however, the settlement is a changed place. Famine has brought struggle, and outsiders, with their military might and foreign ways, have arrived at the doorstep. For Devout’s young daughter, life is more troubled than her mother ever anticipated. But this girl has an extraordinary gift. As worlds collide and peril threatens, it will be up to her to save her family and her community. Immersing readers in a lost world of pagan traditions, Daughter of Black Lake is a transporting story of love, family, survival and the sublime power of the natural world. ...
