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Hame: A novel | Annalena McAfee
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A rich, sultry, ambitious novel about a young American writer/curator, fleeing a crumbling marriage in New York who travels with her nine-year old daughter to one of the remote islands in the north of Scotland, birthplace of her grandfather. Commissioned to set up a museum there and to write the biography of the island's celebrated poet and chronicler, Mhairi McPhail is slowly drawn in by the complicated life she is uncovering and writing about--the Bard of Fascaray--as she finds herself being transformed, awakened by the ferocity and power of the island. Who was the celebrated poet, Grigor McWatt, The Bard of Fascaray? What was his past? Details of his life are elusive. As Mhairi struggles to adapt to her island life and put her disappointment and troubles behind her, she begins to unearth the astonishing secret history of the poet, regarded by many as the custodian of Fascaray's--and Scotland's--soul. In McAfee's rich novel of invented island life, she interweaves extracts from Mhairi's journal entries, her discoveries and writings of McWatt, and tales of Fascaray itself into a resonant, compelling, dimensional narrative that at its heart explores identity, love, belonging and the universal quest for home.
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Ms.Story
Hame: A novel | Annalena McAfee
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Post 1 for #7days7covers Thanks for the tag @barbwire Join in if you'd like @CorleyMullins

ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Love the cover, then when I read it‘s set in Scotland ➡️ stacked! 5y
Ms.Story @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled I picked this up because of the cover but was equally excited when I learned it's set in Scotland too!! 5y
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ladyonequestion
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Mehso-so

One of those difficult to review books. Problem: The utter lack of coherant plot. Somehow deeply unsatisfying and rather dull to read at times. But at the same time you feel like you are being completely unfair as it is such a different book. Full of poetry and meta fiction and a real love of Scotland. But can it make up for the fact that I wanted to throw it across the room at the end in sheer frustration? Felt like I should like it more.

arubabookwoman But I like the cover.... 6y
ladyonequestion @arubabookwoman I know, it's beautiful, and the maps of the island inside are lovely and so's the lovingly written poetry...I'm sure other people would love it! 6y
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Moray_Reads
Hame: A novel | Annalena McAfee
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I am always SO. BAD. at sticking to these but these are the books currently on my bedside table. Lots of nonfiction for some reason and, if past months are annoying to go by, I'll be lucky if I read one of them! #anticipatedjulyreads #JulyinBooks18 @bookisglee

umbrellagirl I loved Hame! 6y
Moray_Reads @umbrellagirl it was a cover but but I have high hopes! 6y
erzascarletbookgasm I‘ve only read Just Mercy, good read. 6y
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ladyonequestion
Hame: A novel | Annalena McAfee
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This is a very odd book. If you love Scotland and are a fan of metatextual novels about a woman researching a fictional poet on a fictional island with lots of fictional Scottish poetry this is for you! Lovingly crafted.

laurieluna That sounds bizarre and intriguing enough for a stack add! 😂 6y
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umbrellagirl
Hame: A novel | Annalena McAfee
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Who else does this? ✋🏼

Weaponxgirl Yup, and film based I sometimes make my own soundtrack in my head too. 7y
umbrellagirl @Weaponxgirl Yes! I do the soundtrack thing too 💙💙 7y
Cathythoughts Yes ! I become the character ( s ) ! That is what you mean? ?! Totally start talking & acting like them ! Well , maybe not totally. But sometimes 😬😂 7y
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bookish_wookish Thought it was just me that did this! #comfortingthatitsnot 7y
Billypar I do this, and then I told someone once, assuming everyone did something like this after reading, and they looked at me like I had three heads 😳 7y
GripLitGrl 🙌Guilty❣❣ 7y
ladym30 🙋‍♀️ 7y
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umbrellagirl
Hame: A novel | Annalena McAfee
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Dreich day. This seemed appropriate.

Balibee146 I used dreich in a post here lately too 👍 7y
umbrellagirl @Balibee146 I no longer live in Scotland but it‘s a good word for today, and a good day for a lie in and new book 🙂 7y
wanderlustforwords What are your thoughts so far? I‘ve keyed up a Kindle sample to try. I‘m hereditarily 1/2 Scottish, Cattnach surname under the McPherson clan. 7y
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scripturient
Hame: A novel | Annalena McAfee
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Beginning this one this morning. 😍 #coverporn

Wife Pretty! 7y
LeahBergen This sounds good. Stacked! 7y
Sarah83 Wonderful 😍 7y
rabbitprincess Love the cover! 7y
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MrBook
Hame: A novel | Annalena McAfee
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#TBRtemptation post 5! I like this cover too ☺️. This "Hame" is Scottish for home. Mhairi McPhail leaves NYC with her 9-year-old daughter, Agnes, for the island of Fascaray to pen a bio of poet Grigor McWatt. While adapting to her new home, she'll uncover an astonishing secret history about Grigor involving war and a mysterious love affair. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?

mcorneli Oh that's quite different from the UK cover! It's beautiful. 7y
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JessicaJernigan
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Excellent epigrams.

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