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A review by snoakes7001
The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola
4.0
The Story Keeper is a gothic period novel about Audrey, a young woman who decides to take control of her life. She effectively runs away from her father and stepmother in London to travel to Skye where she has accepted a job helping to gather and record the islanders' folk tales.
Audrey is running from more than her family and there's a theme running through the story about how difficult it was throughout history to be heard and taken seriously as a woman. It's set just after the Highland clearances, and the gulf between the mean poverty of the crofters and the lifestyle of the landowners is nicely highlighted without hammering the point home.
I did enjoy it, although towards the end it did descend into slightly hackneyed horror territory. That aside though, it's an interesting and entertaining read.
Audrey is running from more than her family and there's a theme running through the story about how difficult it was throughout history to be heard and taken seriously as a woman. It's set just after the Highland clearances, and the gulf between the mean poverty of the crofters and the lifestyle of the landowners is nicely highlighted without hammering the point home.
I did enjoy it, although towards the end it did descend into slightly hackneyed horror territory. That aside though, it's an interesting and entertaining read.