Dimensions
111 x 178 x 17mm
Sharyn McCrumb's spellbinding new novel is set once again in the timeless Appalachian mountains, where the secrets of the present reveal themselves . . . sometimes as gentle stories, sometimes as tragic memories, sometimes as songs.
The folk song came to the Appalachians with Malcolm McCourry, the boy who left the Scottish island of Islay in 1751 and - many years and adventures later - founded a family in North Carolina. Down the years, his descendants sang 'The Rowan Stave'.
Now the famous folksinger Lark McCourry has come back to the mountains and she wants to find her ancestor's song and bring it to a new generation. She turns to Nora Bonesteel, who knows all the mountains' secrets.
