Margaret Elphinstone
Birth date: September 23, 1948
Margaret Elphinstone's Books
Not really my kind of book, it's a strange mix of fantasy and slice-of-life novel and it's about somewhere I often describe my accent as coming from but it didn't excite me, I was happy to leave it in work and read it in snippets.
Uniquely written and engaging. Took me a while to get into the rhythm of the story, but it was worth the effort.
A fascinating, sometimes dreamlike, sometimes gritty story of Gudrid, who marries in to Erik the Red's family and travels from Iceland to Greenland and off the ends of the earth. The frame story, of her recounting her life to an Icelandic-born monk in Rome, works very well. Gudrid is someone you'd w...
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