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Elisabeth Gifford
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March 2013
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The Lost Lights of St Kilda
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2020
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13 editions
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The Good Doctor of Warsaw
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2018
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29 editions
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Secrets of the Sea House
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A Woman Made of Snow
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2021
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12 editions
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The Sea House
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2013
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15 editions
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Return to Fourwinds
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2014
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10 editions
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The Mischief Makers
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The House of Hope
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2011
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6 editions
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Summer Secrets: Secrets of the Sea House / Return to Fourwinds
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Are there mermaids and seal people descendants living in the US today?
How legends sometimes hold lost history.
When I first heard the legend of the seal people I was struck by how sad it was. Selkies are seals in the water but become human on land. If someone steals their sealskin they can never go home to the sea again. I was amazed to find out from Gaelic historian John MacAulay that behind this legend lay very real people: kayakers in sealskin canoes and jackets w Read more of this blog post »
When I first heard the legend of the seal people I was struck by how sad it was. Selkies are seals in the water but become human on land. If someone steals their sealskin they can never go home to the sea again. I was amazed to find out from Gaelic historian John MacAulay that behind this legend lay very real people: kayakers in sealskin canoes and jackets w Read more of this blog post »
“How strange it was to...watch her walk round the table and the chairs by the fire, pick up my shells from the shore along the mantelpiece, and smile at everything and examine it as if she were reading the story of my life in the intervening years. She ran her hand along the book spines on the shelves, stopping to greet an old friend as she took it down to read a little.”
― The Sea House
― The Sea House
“in books you may visit places that you will never see with your own eyes”
― The Lost Lights of St Kilda
― The Lost Lights of St Kilda
“for this much i have learned, the only things that stand are love and forgiveness, they are an island of hope glimpsed and not glimpsed among the pounding waves of the storms,but there still,always there,the lights guiding us home”
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Thank you for the friend request, I am sorry to say I haven't heard of your book, but do like the sound of it.Kind Regards.
Lucinda wrote: "Dear Elisabeth,Thank you so much for acepting my friendship request. I am delighted to have won through a first-read giveaway a copy of your novel "Secrets of the sea house".
I have just moved ho..."
Many thanks for the message Hope the move went well Lucinda.
Dear Elisabeth,Thank you so much for acepting my friendship request. I am delighted to have won through a first-read giveaway a copy of your novel "Secrets of the sea house".
I have just moved house and so i am not online for these 2 weeks, but once i do have internet connection again i shall look forward to reviewing your book on Goodreads.
Kind Regards
Lucinda x
