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Stumblestone
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First published January 1, 2022
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Clio Gray
20 books13 followersClio Gray has won many awards for her writing, including the Harry Bowling First Novel Award. She has been Man Booker Nominated, Long Listed for the Baileys, and Short Listed for the Cinnamon Prize. Born in Yorkshire, she spent her later childhood in Devon before returning to Yorkshire to go to university, after which she ended up in Scotland. For the past thirty years she has lived in the Highlands where she intends to remain.
Gray eschewed the usual route of marriage, mortgage, children, and instead spent her working life in libraries, filling her home with books and sharing that home with her dogs.
When she gets a few days off you can find her in her campervan scooting around the lesser known areas of Scotland and the Highlands that haven’t been brought to ruination by the dreadful tourist push called the NC500.
Gray eschewed the usual route of marriage, mortgage, children, and instead spent her working life in libraries, filling her home with books and sharing that home with her dogs.
When she gets a few days off you can find her in her campervan scooting around the lesser known areas of Scotland and the Highlands that haven’t been brought to ruination by the dreadful tourist push called the NC500.
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July 20, 2023
Stumblestone by Clio Gray is a fascinating book, with a deep resonant history at its core and a satisfying and intriguing story at its heart. Set in 1839 Albania and Montenegro, with a taste of Italy thrown in, this book has a dark centre, yet throughout there is hope.
When a company of touring entertainers stumble on the aftermath of a massacre they find one survivor, a young girl clearly traumatised by what she has witnessed. They do what any of us would and should do, they take her in and begin the search for the people she should be with.
The reader falls for the plight of the child, hopes for her future and travels alongside the Phiffmaklers as they try to find her a new home.
But is the child already home? or are there others who would use the child for their own ends.
Fascinating, beguiling, deep and troubling at times, Stumblestone touches modern-day memories of the brutal and horrific breakdown of the former Yugoslavia and of the current horror of Ukraine.
A breakthrough novel by a very talented author.
When a company of touring entertainers stumble on the aftermath of a massacre they find one survivor, a young girl clearly traumatised by what she has witnessed. They do what any of us would and should do, they take her in and begin the search for the people she should be with.
The reader falls for the plight of the child, hopes for her future and travels alongside the Phiffmaklers as they try to find her a new home.
But is the child already home? or are there others who would use the child for their own ends.
Fascinating, beguiling, deep and troubling at times, Stumblestone touches modern-day memories of the brutal and horrific breakdown of the former Yugoslavia and of the current horror of Ukraine.
A breakthrough novel by a very talented author.
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