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A mother who cannot face her future.
A daughter who cannot escape her past.
Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she turns to the auld ways, desperate to conceal a generations-old scandal that taints her family's name.
Her husband, Lord Donald, has secrets of his own, well hidden from the household, yet whispered among the town gossips. Elisabeth cannot--must not--discover the truth, or all will be ruined.
His mother, the dowager Lady Marjory, hides gold beneath her floor and guilt inside her heart. Though her two abiding passions are maintaining her place in society and coddling her grown sons, Marjory's many regrets, buried in Greyfriars Churchyard, continue to plague her.
One by one the Kerr family secrets begin to surface, even as bonny Prince Charlie and his rebel army ride into Edinburgh in September 1745, intent on capturing the crown.
A timeless...
Prolific and popular Christy winner Higgs (Whence Came a Prince) returns to Scotland with this historical tale set in the 1745 Jacobite rebellion led by Charles Edward Stuart, grandson of the deposed King James. In Edinburgh, Lady Elisabeth Kerr brings beauty, modest origins, and Highland-born sympathy for Bonnie Prince Charlie to her marriage to the handsome royalist Lord Donald Kerr, who loves his wife and has an eye for beautiful women. She secretly follows the auld ways, pagan worship of the moon. Donald, too, has his secret affairs; his widowed mother, Dowager Lady Marjory Kerr, has bags of gold hidden away. The story begins slowly, picking up speed after characters and tensions are introduced and rebellious forces take Edinburgh. The characters are remarkably flawed—the better to be redeemed in an evangelical Christian novel—though Donald's flaws and Elisabeth's notable patience may try some readers' patience. Higgs is a stickler for period authenticity and has done her homework on history and dialect. Fans have been waiting five years for this novel and will not be disappointed. (Mar.)
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Rodney Jones
reviewed Here Burns My Candle on November 16, 2017
Here Burns My Candle
Once again, I didn't read enough of the synopsis to get that this is (very) loosely based on the book of Ruth, and it didn't hit me until the last couple of chapters.
Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, siding with bonnie Prince Charlie who is bent on taking his rightful throne, widow Lady Marjory and her daughters-in-law (Lady Elisabeth Kerr and Janet) are left in a hostile town after her sons enlist.
If you know the book of Ruth, you know what happens, but this book is FAR more detailed and FAR longer, seemingly interminable in fact. Kudos to the author for adding history in an enjoyable way; not just facts like a history lesson, but woven into the story line in letters, conversations, or reports from soldiers and decrees handed down.
One daughter-in-law is likeable, the other not so much. Mother-in-law Marjory is a typical higher society lady who looks down her nose at anyone in the working class, but learns to soften her stance from Elisabeth, who takes on responsibilities when their finances dwindle during the war.
Part of me liked this book, the historical fiction lover in me, but it was slow, with unnecessary detail making the book drag. I listened to the audio version of the book which was read by the author herself. That was a real treat. So, as for the audio: 4 1/2-stars. As for the book: 3-stars.
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