6/26/2023 0 Comments The black house trilogyIt is just the distraction Janet, and particularly Aila, needs: for the first time in a long while, their lives are filling with joy and friendship, and a kind of hope Aila hasn't known since her father's death.īut in this small community, faith is more powerful than truth, and whispers more dangerous even than fire. Then arrives a motley troupe of travelling entertainers from Edinburgh, led by the charismatic but mysterious Jack. When a temporary minister is appointed in the area, rather than welcome the two women, he develops a strange curiosity for them that sets them even further apart from the community. Blending in does not come easily to the women: Aila was badly burned in the fire and left with visible injuries, while her mother struggles to maintain her grip on reality. In the aftermath of a tragic fire that kills her father, Aila and her mother, Janet, move to the remote parish of Loth, north-west of Inverness.
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