Overall, this adds to the atmosphere created by the whimsical vocabulary — the reader wants to believe that Corrag’s life is one of such things, making such ideas seem desirable and exciting. Corrag tells of her time in the mountains and gives vivid descriptions of the mountains, the people, and her small hut and friendship with the Macdonald clan. Her Wordsworthian worship of nature eventually reveals itself as humbug, the emotions of the tourist. This is where the familiar of the witch begins to take shape: like the dead, fed on blood, and like the dead, malevolent.

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Corrag is a wise and gentle soul whose ability to know herbs and help people has branded her a witch. We know the Reverend is coming to interview her to learn more about a possible implication of King William of Orange in a clan massacre whereas Rev.Charles describing how Corrag’s words are affecting him:” I walk where she walks, and see what she sees. The unlikely pair grow more entangled as they travel together, looking for the missing half of Lelek's soul – the source of her true magical abilities. Charles Leslie, a supporter of the former King James, makes his way from Ireland in the dead of winter to a prison in Inverary Scotland where a witness to the massacre is housed. Another thread that was present but not fully fleshed out: that it is important to find nonviolent ways of being. Susan Fletcher immediately transported me so thoroughly to a time and place, to ways of thinking and perceiving they are, for the time being, a part of me.

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Secrets, friendship, and magic all come together as Lelek gets closer and closer to uncovering the truth about her past. And not only she does she want a home and a family, she wants the home and family of the son of the clan leader.Maybe it is a slight implication of hypocrisy: that we turn on those from the past, seeing their beliefs as cruel and wrong, instead of reflecting on the present.

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The heart of Witchlight is its depiction of Sanja and Lelek’s relationship: learning to compromise and learning to trust and making real mistakes – the kind that can break fragile friendships – and figuring out how to move past that. Corrag's descriptions combine the oblique originality of a child with the precision and control of a poet…the novel is crowded with images stunning in their freshness and simplicity…there are moments when the sheer beauty of the prose takes one's breath away…it is a novel of extraordinary beauty and quiet power that is impossible, having read it, not to look at the world anew' Guardian 'Corrag is a beguiling and sensitive heroine and Fletcher's powers of description are as strong as ever in her third novel' Financial Times 'Fletcher gives Corrag a lyrical narrative voice…a fascinating aspect of history' Daily Mail 'Susan Fletcher's lyrical, poetic style is burnished to a rare shine in her third book…her descriptions of the Scottish landscape are breathtaking, as is her depiction of the lonesome girl who is enraptured by the beauty of the Highlands…Incredibly moving' Marie Claire 'As compelling as it is heartbreaking…Fletcher's powerful prose will stay with you long after you finish the last page. Occasionally veering into creepy territory despite its colorful aesthetic, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is best described as a grim fairy tale. I will think of how it is when part of a mountain brightens very suddenly, so it is like that rock is chosen by the sun – marked out by sunshine from all the other rocks. You are still standing on the hillside above the site, looking at the lumps in the grass and wondering.but all of them--from the snow, to his fern-red hair, to my mare's eye reflecting the sky as she smelt the air of Rannoch Moor--have light in them, and are worth it. Yule found the module to be a fun exploration of the Feywild with a focus on role-playing over " hack ‘n’ slash" gameplay. He's not even a necessary character but through letters home to his wife the reader sees how he goes from being disgusted by Corrag's charge of witchcraft and filthy appearance, afraid of catching her lice, to seeing her as a human being. It is a story of love for nature and for animals and how precious each of them are, how beautiful life's little things are and that a real life of richness revolves around love of these things and our relationship with others.