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The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
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The Winter Sea (original 2008; edition 2010)

by Susanna Kearsley

Series: Slains (1)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!

"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with charactersâ??sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"â?? DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander

A hauntingly beautiful tale of love that transcends time. A modern American woman travels to Scotland to write a novel about the Jacobite Rebellionâ?? only to discover that the vivid scenes and the romantic hero she's imagining actually exist...

In the spring of 1708, invading Jacobites plot to land the exiled James Stewart on the Scottish coast to reclaim his crown. When young Sophia Paterson travels to Slains Castle by the sea, she finds herself in the midst of the dangerous intrigue.

Now, American writer Carrie McClelland hopes to base her next bestselling novel on that story of her ancestors in the dim, dark past . Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she starts to write.
But as Carrie's mind slips back in time, she learns of the ultimate betrayal that happened all those years ago, making her the only living person who knows the truthâ??and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her.

Other bestselling books by Susanna Kearsley:
The Rose Garden
A Desperate Fortune
The Firebird

Praise for RITA Nominee, The Winter Sea:
"Lifts readers straight into another time and place to smell the sea, feel the castle walls, see history and sense every emotion. These are marks of a fantastic storyteller." â??RT Bo
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Title:The Winter Sea
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The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley (2008)

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 World Reading Circle: Winter Sea, Mir's third book.8 unread / 8cedargrove, November 2011

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Surprisingly good. Kept my interest all through. Two parallel stories: an author comes to the Aberdeen area and writes a novel about the 18th century and a Jacobite rebellion, which more or less "writes itself." She is told this is "genetic memory." The characters in her novel are from her own family's past but with her writing in her current love interest as her heroine's--a family ancestor.
Fact and fiction blur with amazing coincidences in plots. ( )
  janerawoof | Feb 4, 2024 |
A writer finds herself drawn to a particular section of Scottish coastline while she's plotting her next book--but the book virtually starts to write itself as ideas flood her brain. Or are they memories? "Genetic memories"? Interesting premise, although not for the skeptic at heart. I viewed it as a more creative, intense way to tell a story that would have otherwise been a straight researching-family-history premise. Or that could have gone to the other end of the spectrum and been a time-slip novel.

It got bogged down (for me) in some of the political history of the Jacobites, which, no matter how hard I try to follow, makes my eyes glaze over. It was also a bit long for holding my interest steadily.
But the writing was quite literary in places. ( )
  Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |
I really loved the beginning of this book. I looked up the history, enjoyed getting to know the characters, and found the writing to be top notch. Unfortunately, the story lines are not resolved satisfactorialy. ( )
  deemaromer | Feb 23, 2023 |
Loved it! ( )
  dmurfgal | Dec 9, 2022 |
This was an interesting read - historical fiction with a innovative twist. The book is written in two parts - the story of an author writing an historical fiction novel, and the actual historical fiction. The two are woven together neatly - more about the author initially, and gradually becoming more of the historical fiction. I thought it was very well done. There is a very slight fantasy/timetravel aspect which added to the story telling. There is also a slight Mills and Boon-ish aspect to the romances, which suggested to me that elderly male readers may not the prime reader demographic, but I had no difficulty enjoying that part of the ride as well.
While this volume is fine stand-alone book, I'll be looking for the other two volimes of the trilogy. ( )
  mbmackay | Aug 26, 2022 |
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Epigraph
Come home! The year has left you old;
Leave those grey stones; wrap close this shawl
Around you for the night is cold;
Come home! He will not hear you call;

No sign awaits you here but the beat
Of tides upon the strand,
The craig's gaunt shadow with gull's feet
Imprinted on the sand,
And spars and sea-weed strewn
Under a pale moon.

Come home! He will not hear you call;
Only the night winds answer as they fall
Along the shore, 
and evermore
Only the sea-shells 
On the grey stones singing,
And the white foam-bells
On the North Sea ringing.
-E.J. Pratt, "On the Shore"
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It wasn't chance.
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A grieving person’s like a person treading in deep water—if they’ve nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.’
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Fantasy. Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!

"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with charactersâ??sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"â?? DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander

A hauntingly beautiful tale of love that transcends time. A modern American woman travels to Scotland to write a novel about the Jacobite Rebellionâ?? only to discover that the vivid scenes and the romantic hero she's imagining actually exist...

In the spring of 1708, invading Jacobites plot to land the exiled James Stewart on the Scottish coast to reclaim his crown. When young Sophia Paterson travels to Slains Castle by the sea, she finds herself in the midst of the dangerous intrigue.

Now, American writer Carrie McClelland hopes to base her next bestselling novel on that story of her ancestors in the dim, dark past . Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she starts to write.
But as Carrie's mind slips back in time, she learns of the ultimate betrayal that happened all those years ago, making her the only living person who knows the truthâ??and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her.

Other bestselling books by Susanna Kearsley:
The Rose Garden
A Desperate Fortune
The Firebird

Praise for RITA Nominee, The Winter Sea:
"Lifts readers straight into another time and place to smell the sea, feel the castle walls, see history and sense every emotion. These are marks of a fantastic storyteller." â??RT Bo

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