In 1869, a brutal triple murder in the remote Wester Ross village of Culduie leads to the arrest of a seventeen-year-old crofter, Roderick Macrae. There is no question of Macrae‘s guilt, but it falls to the country‘s most eminent legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to his bloody deeds. Ultimately, the young man‘s fate hinges on one key question: is he insane?
The story ingeniously unfolds through a series of found documents
a modern woman will inhabit forty rooms in her lifetime.For our protagonist, the much-loved child of a late marriage,the first rooms she is aware of as she nears the age of five are those that make up her family‘s Moscow apartment. We follow her as she leaves home to study in America, and slowly discovers sexual happiness and love. But her hunger for adventure and her longing to be a great poet conspire to kill the affair.
pick3.5 stars - It had me gripped from the start, though the dark materials is one of my favourites from childhood. Malcolm is the hero of the story and is embroiled in a story of espionage, danger and secrets. The story is set in the past when Lyra, from his dark materials is only 6 months. I would most definitely read a part 2 to this story 👏. #bookofdust #phillippullman #bookworm #booknerd
