A review by pruemansfield56
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

5.0

This was a powerful book. About longing for home, identity, making the best, the humanity of people, how the best of people are more complex than that. Betrayal, historic and contemporary. The male characters were much stronger, with the female characters more peripheral. But that is the conventional way, for historic novels about war, immigration, new lands, even with 12 children, pioneering, mining, lighthouse keeping. It was even better to read as we had been to that part of Canada.