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Flight From Stonewycke
Flight From Stonewycke
Flight From Stonewycke
Audiobook11 hours

Flight From Stonewycke

Written by Michael Phillips and Judith Pella

Narrated by Davina Porter

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With over half a million copies sold, The Stonewycke Trilogy thrills readers with its rich characters and detailed settings. Building on the events from The Heather Hills of Stonewycke, Flight From Stonewycke continues this multi-generational tale of an aristocratic Scottish family. After marrying against her father's wishes, Maggie Duncan plans to flee to America with her husband, Ian. But Ian is accused of murder, and honor requires him to stay in Scotland to face the charges. Alone, Maggie sets up a life for them in the New World, while Ian faces the horrors of prison. Thousands of miles apart, the two must learn to trust in God's greater will to reunite them.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 15, 2008
ISBN9781449800949
Flight From Stonewycke
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Michael Phillips

Professor Mike Phillips has a BSc in Civil Engineering, an MSc in Environmental Management and a PhD in Coastal Processes and Geomorphology, which he has used in an interdisciplinary way to assess current challenges of living and working on the coast. He is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research, Innovation, Enterprise and Commercialisation) at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and also leads their Coastal and Marine Research Group. Professor Phillips' research expertise includes coastal processes, morphological change and adaptation to climate change and sea level rise, and this has informed his engagement in the policy arena. He has given many key note speeches, presented at many major international conferences and evaluated various international and national coastal research projects. Consultancy contracts include beach monitoring for the development of the Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay, assessing beach processes and evolution at Fairbourne (one of the case studies in this book), beach replenishment issues, and techniques to monitor underwater sediment movement to inform beach management. Funded interdisciplinary research projects have included adaptation strategies in response to climate change and underwater sensor networks. He has published >100 academic articles and in 2010 organised a session on Coastal Tourism and Climate Change at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in his role as a member of the Climate, Oceans and Security Working Group of the UNEP Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands. He has successfully supervised many PhD students, and as well as research students in his own University, advises PhD students for overseas universities. These currently include the University of KwaZuluNatal, Durban, University of Technology, Mauritius and University of Aveiro, Portugal. Professor Phillips has been a Trustee/Director of the US Coastal Education and Research Foundation (CERF) since 2011 and he is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Coastal Research. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia and Visiting Professor at the University Centre of the Westfjords. He was an expert advisor for the Portuguese FCT Adaptaria (coastal adaptation to climate change) and Smartparks (planning marine conservation areas) projects and his contributions to coastal and ocean policies included: the Rio +20 World Summit, Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands; UNESCO; EU Maritime Spatial Planning; and Welsh Government Policy on Marine Aggregate Dredging. Past contributions to research agendas include the German Cluster of Excellence in Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) and the Portuguese Department of Science and Technology.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Admittedly, I stuck with this book because I'm curious to find out what happens in the overall saga, not because I necessarily enjoyed the read.That is, I enjoyed some parts, and there's one character I like. But I feel he's settling for the short end of the stick (almost like a distant, inevitable turn in the saga is just using him for now) and that it'll get worse for him before it gets better, if he appears in the next book.As for the rest of the leading characters, the overdramatic and unnatural feel to them still keeps me from connecting with them. Besides that, much or most of this story is full of tragedy and depression, with a whole lot of sermonizing added in.Still, my overall love for historical sagas persists, and I'm wondering where all of this is headed.So, yeah. The series has got me interested enough to keep going.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Second in the Stonewycke trilogy. Maggie and Ian have run off and gotten themselves hitched, against the wishes of her Evil Father. He finds them!! He chases them!! They have to go to America to get away !!!!!!!! But Ian can't go!!! He must protect his honor!!!! So he sends Magge on without him!!!!! Will they both survive to see each other again?!!?!?!?! Will this book end happily?????? Can I use enough exclamation points to show how wonderfully bad this book was?!?!?!?The answers, in order, are: Yes, no, and not a chance. Of course, the first answer is just conjecture, but no book this predictable is going to kill off either one of their main characters. They just try to create cliffhanger moments to make their readers come back for more.I will come back, thanks, but not because I care about what happens to Mr and Mrs. Mary Sue. This is one of those books which is so bad, it's fun to read. While some parts, with their blatant misogyny (A wife's greatest joy is serving her husband - even if there's a good chance it'll get the whole family killed.) pissed me off, other parts were so simplistic and internally inconsistent they made me laugh out loud.For example, at one point Maggie is having Deep Thoughts, and concludes that God has nothing to do with evil. She later has a Deep Conversation with Mr. Mary Sue the II who Pines for her Love, and they conclude that God takes little interest in human affairs - he likes for people to come to him broken and wounded so he can heal their pain. (Summary of their words, not mine.) Then, later in the book, Mr. Mary Sue the III (these authors like Mary Sues. Could you tell?) goes ecstatic over the fact that he is 'not responsible for his own actions' as god is his guiding every step. Gee, these three espoused viewpoints work together right well, don't they? My dissatisfaction, though, is caused less by including all of these options for explaining the presence of evil, than by the fact that none of these options ... work. The authors work hard to present three different arguments, and all of them are faulty.Yeah, I had fun with it. However, I recommend everyone else stay far away. 3/10