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Starting off the third year in a row with a book that will undoubtedly be in my top five, if not my book of the year. This is the story of when Gideon Mack cheated death and met the Devil, and it ticked all my boxes:
found text - check!
unreliable narrator - check!
the uncanny - check!
footnotes - check!
set in a wee village in Scotland - check!
folklore and local customs - check!
standing stones - check!
religion vs the de’il - check!
ambiguous ending - check!
cantankerous but soft hearted auld wummin c ...more
found text - check!
unreliable narrator - check!
the uncanny - check!
footnotes - check!
set in a wee village in Scotland - check!
folklore and local customs - check!
standing stones - check!
religion vs the de’il - check!
ambiguous ending - check!
cantankerous but soft hearted auld wummin c ...more
Jul 16, 2012
Denise
marked it as to-read
