Flight of the Heron read-along: Part V chapters 3-4

[regshoe]

But till my last moments my words are the same: there'll never be peace until Jamie comes hame...

The penultimate week of the read-along, and in these chapters we are still very Jacobite.

Next week we will, sadly, read Part V Chapter 5 and the Epilogue.

Comments

[regshoe]

Spending more time with Aunt Margaret is always a good thing. :D

I presume this is equivalent to when I have a great plot idea for a story while falling asleep and spend an hour trying to recover whatever-it-was in the morning. Of course it almost always turns out in the morning to be unusable nonsense, rather than the poignant moment of profound beauty that sleepy-brain thought it was.

XD I know what you mean! Well, perhaps...

Ooh, I like the story possibility in Ewen returning to Ardroy as a ghost, too! Also the idea that Ewen might have something of the sight himself.

[hyarrowen]

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[regshoe]

Oh yes, of course!

Yeah, it's a lovely and fascinating blend of history and magic—not quite so far over on the fantasy end of the spectrum as e.g. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, but definitely not 'pure' historical fiction.

[hyarrowen]

I think Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy is somewhere on that spectrum too. She's very good on landscapes - there's definitely a Venn diagram to be drawn!