Corrag

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I must warn that Guthrie does not use different intonations for Corrag’s story as she tells it to Charles and Charles’s letters to his wife about Corrag.

The reason for the massacre was their loyalty to the exiled Catholic James II, however sadly for the McDonalds a signed oath of their allegiance to William the III has been signed six days too late and the punishment is devastating. Reverend Charles Leslie, adopting his wife’s maiden name for a disguise, arrives in the town to find out information about the Glencoe massacre of the MacDonald clan in Scotland. The conversion takes place while he is interviewing a witch in prison who is about to be burned for her crimes.It’s about finding one’s place and about two people’s journeys – one physical, one of the conscience.

On the night of 30th June, the man went into a local bar to show off the old sword handle that he had discovered that day. the jailer] We’ll need half the wood I thought we would, he said, very properly—like there was a magistrate in the room who he was talking to. There is a stillness and beauty to Susan Fletcher's writing that will enchant the reader and take your breath away with beautiful vivid descriptions of the Scottish Highlands and a tale that will transport you to another time and place. Themes of identity "what we believe is what shapes us", loss, loneliness, love - both the sharing of it and yearning for it, ever present death, belonging, betrayal, honor, the natural world vs manmade institutions.Charles Leslie, a supporter of the former King James, makes his way from Ireland in the dead of winter to a prison in Inverary Scotland where a witness to the massacre is housed. The Massacre of Glencoe happened at 5am on 13th February 1692 when thirty-eight members of the Macdonald clan were killed by soldiers who had enjoyed the clan’s hospitality for the previous ten days. Fletcher sets up the novel with alternating chapters told by Corrag, a young woman accused of witchcraft: "I wait for it - death.

Corrag's descriptions combine the oblique originality of a child with the precision and control of a poet. I have had it with every starry sky, with each bee that knocked against me as it rose up from a bloom. They both tell her story - thus move the plot along more - but are also composed of inner thoughts and immensely rich in feeling and tone. Corrag’s life changed others’ lives - even that of the Reverend who heard her tale and jotted it down with his ink and quill. Susan Fletcher immediately transported me so thoroughly to a time and place, to ways of thinking and perceiving they are, for the time being, a part of me.This beauty is eventually destroyed by the massacre of the MacDonalds at the hands of the soldiers, their own guests.