From a reader...
Stephen Drew, author of Into the Thin, has obviously fallen in love with Millicent McTeer as much as I have. His Amazon review of her tale is humbling and gratifying to her author.
To
read any book is an experience in relationship with the story and
characters, with the author’s voice. Often, it’s a matter of simply
reading, absorbing, turning pages, then reflecting on what’s been
offered. Sometimes, though, there’s more. There are characters framed in
such a way that I fall in love with them, storytelling that compels me
to turn pages, a narrative voice that pulls me onto those pages, and
that allows reading them to become the high point of the day. I then
come to a place where I begin reading more slowly as the book becomes
thin in the right hand, and I realize this has to end soon. Such was my
relationship with this book. Whatever could be left but to reread?
Henry
Mitchell’s tale brings me to some of my favorite places, through
portals, folds of time (and no time), through love and fear, wonder and
longing. There is a Celtic mysticism working here, where the soul of the
land itself has its place, its own character. There is a deep morality,
yet not heavy-handed, and there is goodness revealed even in dark
places...a reminder that all belongs.
This book has a warmth of
voice, one authentic to the region in which its story unfolds, yet it is
discreet and easy to move through as it serves the story so well. This
beautifully crafted volume will prove to be the high point of many a
readers’ day. -Stephen Drew
henrymitchellbooks.com
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