Wild, unable to speak, and without family. Person who is kind to the young widow is the local priest, who becomes a The local villagers blame Marnie for his death, and the only Marriage is a horror to her, but luckily her new husband dies two daysĪfter the wedding as he is trying to make their ramshackle cottage Man for security for her struggling family they travel away from theįarm community she knows to a place of strangers. Marnie is a young woman who marries an older Life on the sea, a peasant culture, a time when few people could readĪnd write, a time people believed in witchcraft and were quick to blameĪnyone who was different. Yet, she has created a fully realized world of small village Purposefully placed this story of Marnie and Raven in an unknown timeĪnd place. Jordan is a New Zealand writer, and in her afterword, she says she To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, March 1999: Even if readers see a few developments coming, the anticipation is pure pleasure. The land itself takes on a hypnotic presence, culminating in a primal dance on a Stonehenge-like stage.
A few elements may be familiar to adult readers (e.g., a mysterious hidden treasure), but Marnie's ordeal at the hands of witch-hunters and Raven's efforts to learn to communicate make for riveting reading. Jordan blends a zealous supporting cast with the flavor of Hawthorne with the societal forces of Hardy as she plays out Marnie's tortuous fate. She realizes that Raven is deaf rather than-as the superstitious townsfolk believe-possessed by demons, and develops a sign language with which the two young people communicate (fueling suspicions of witchcraft).
In this hostile environment the parish priest and an outcast boy Marnie dubs Raven are the young widow's only allies. After a mere two days of marriage, Isake dies in a freak accident for which the villagers unfairly blame Marnie, whom they suspect is a witch. Marnie arrives in the village of Torcurra to live in a rundown and isolated cottage with her new husband, Isake Isherwood, the son of a nobleman. Jordan (Winter of Fire) transports readers to a craggy seaside town for this sweeping story of a blossoming friendship between a young woman outsider and a young man whom the townsfolk deem mad.
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