![]() ![]() Corrag is forced to flee alone to the Scottish Highlands where she settles near and befriends the MacDonald clan. I’ve never turned into a bird, skimmed a night-time loch, or settled on ships to make them drown… I’ve not summoned anything… I pray – not in church and with no Bible, but otherwise I reckon it’s probably like how you pray, which is with the heart’s voice talking, not the mouth’s." Misunderstood, misjudged, and persecuted, Corrag, her mother and her grandmother are called “witch” due to their differences and strengths as unattached women. I’ve never plucked out gizzards or howled at moons. “What townsfolk say we do and what we truly do are very different things. Susan Fletcher tells this story with gorgeous, poetical and vivid prose. It is about learning to truly understand the people we encounter in our lives. Alternately titled The Highland Witch or Witch Light, Corrag is a magical story about opening your heart to the beauty of your surroundings. Haunting and beautiful, Corrag drew me in and transported me to the Scottish Highlands of the seventeenth century. ![]()
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