Island of Wings: A Novel A dazzling debut novel of love and loss, faith and atonement, on an untamed nineteenth-century Scottish island. Exquisitely written and profoundly moving, Island of Wings is a richly imagined novel about two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of extreme hardship and unearthly beauty. Everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie when they arrive at the St. Kilda islands in July of 1830. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders, and Lizzie-bright, beautiful, and devoted-is pregnant with their first child. As the two adjust to life at the edge of civilization, where the natives live in squalor and babies perish mysteriously, their marriage-and their sanity-are soon threatened. |
Contents
MAY 1831 A VISIT | |
AUGUST 1834 CHANGE | |
18351838 ECLIPSE | |
JUNE 1838 LESSONS | |
JULY 1838 TRIAL OF FAITH | |
MARCH 1841 EXPOSURE | |
MAY 1843 DEPARTURE | |
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