Im Schatten der Stürme [bi4t]

Isle of Mull Trilogy #2

by Jessica Stirling

An epic of love, greed and betrayal set on the beautiful, remote Isle of Mull... For Innis and Biddy, daughters of the embittered Vassie Campbell, life has changed greatly from the days when they were poor tenant farmers. Innis and Biddy Campbell married well - Innis to the handsome shepherd Michael Tarrant, Biddy to rich Austin Baverstock. Innis, the mother of three young children, has found that marriage to handsome Michael is utterly different from the idyll she expected. And Biddy has become only too accustomed to being a wealthy widow and childless who keeps herself aloof from both the life she once knew and her dead husband's family. Then into their lives, still sheltered from a changing world by Mull's very remoteness, come two men. For Biddy, happiness may have come last. But it is Innis who has the hardest choices to make.

Paperback

First published March 5, 1998

About the author

A pseudonym used by Hugh C. Rae, initially in collaboration with Peggie Coghlan and later alone.

Hugh Crauford Rae was born on November 22, 1935 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, son of Isobel and Robert Rae. He published his first stories aged 11 in the Robin comic, winning a cricket bat the same year in a children’s writing competition. After graduating from secondary school, he worked as an assistant in the antiquarian department of John Smith's bookshop. At work, he met her future wife, Elizabeth. Published since 1963, he started to wrote suspense novels as Hugh C. Rae, but he also used the pseudonyms of Robert Crawford, R.B. Houston, Stuart Stern (with S. Ungar) and James Albany. On 1973, his novel "The Shooting Gallery" was nominee by the Edgar Award. On 1974, he wrote the first few romance novels with Peggie Coghlan, using the popular pseudonym Jessica Stirling. However, when she retired 7 years after the first book was published, he continued writing more than 30 on his own, and also as Caroline Crosby. His female pseudonyms first became widely known in 1999, when "The Wind from the Hills" was shortlisted for Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Widowed nine years ago, Hugh died on September 24, 2014 at the age of 78.

Reviews

[Mabel Rogers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Complicated family dynamics!

[Stef · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't enjoy it, overly complicated never could really get into it, rather depressing and had a seriously rushed ending.

[Angela S · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

A real page turner. Also unlike some books not predictable. A highly recommended read
The character's are interesting and varied.

[Tracie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stories from the beauty of Scotland.
I've enjoyed every Jessica Stirling novel I have read.

[cathie knott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good read

Enjoyed this book very much. Looking forward to reading the next book. Would recommend this author to anyone who like this type of book.

[Mrs Margaret Maher · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book.

I have liked this book it is different type of story to what I have been reading recently. I will took out for more of her books.