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    Bone Deep
    Bone Deep
    Bone Deep
    Audiobook8 hours

    Bone Deep

    Written by Sandra Ireland

    Narrated by Toni Frutin and Kate Reading

    3.5/5

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    A twisty and propulsive read, this dark psychological thriller of sibling rivalry, love, betrayal, and the dire consequences of family fallout brilliantly plays on our fears of loneliness and abandonment, harkening to the modern gothic bestsellers by Ruth Ware and Liz Nugent.

    Is a story ever just a story?

    Mac, a retired academic and writer, is working on a new collection of folktales, inspired by local legends, and at the insistence of her only child, Arthur, she hires a young assistant, Lucie, to live in a cottage on her property and help her transcribe them. What Arthur doesn’t know is that his mother is determined to keep the secrets of her past from ever being discovered. And what Mac doesn’t know is that Lucie has a few complicated secrets of her own.

    The creaking presence of an ancient water mill next to Mac’s property that used to grind wheat into flour serves as an eerie counterpoint for these two women as they circle warily around each other, haunted by the local legend of two long-dead sisters, ready to point accusing fingers from the pages of history.

    This atmospheric page turner evocatively gives voice to the question: What happens when you fall in love with the wrong person?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJun 11, 2019
    ISBN9781508284161
    Author

    Sandra Ireland

    Sandra Ireland is the author of the novels Beneath the Skin and Bone Deep. Before turning to fiction, she worked as a journalist. Born in Yorkshire, England, she spent many years in Limerick, Ireland, and now lives near Edinburgh.

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    • 5/5
      Great story, wonderfully narrated. Rich in metaphor and theme, accessible characters.
    • 3/5
      Interesting, good twists. Beautifully read maybe not my favorite story
    • 4/5
      The writing in this book was absolutely amazing. Poetic! I figured out some of the mystery, it was a little predictable, but not completely. Parts of the end caught me off guard. However, there is nothing to like about the two main characters at all. In fact, the younger one literally has no depth outside of her stupid choices with men and her rudeness to other people and how she treats them. But then again, that may be part of the lesson the author is trying to convey…
    • 4/5
      Bone Deepby Sandra Ireland2018Gallery4.5 / 5.0A dark, psychological thriller of love, betrayal, sibling rivalry, and murder.Set in the Scottish town of Fettermore, Arthur convinces his mother, a retired historian living alone in a large estate, to hire a Girl Friday to live in the cottage behind her home. So Max hires Lucie to help her transcribe her collection of folklore, and history of 2 sisters. Lucie is very different from Max, but they get along. As Lucie begins to transcribe Max's story of the 2 sisters, it reminds Lucie of her own secrets. Max has secrets of her own age wants to keep hidden. As these two women circle each other, they are forced to confront their own pasts and fears.Atmospheric and gothic, this is only Irelands second novel. Tremendous storyteller and building.#teamslaughter #scarathon #theme @Clwojick
    • 4/5
      Bone Deep is a novel that is a contemporary retelling of a Scottish legend of two sisters who were often by an ancient water mill that now is the home of Mac, a retired academic and writer. These sister's had a sibling rivalry that turned deadly. Mac is working on a new collection of folktales that include these sisters. Mac is a widow and her son wants her to live in an assisted living type place but she refuses.Mac is having frequent bouts of memory loss and wants to complete her work so she hires a young woman, Lucie, to help her type up her notes and other duties. She moves into the Miller's Cottage. Lucie left home, her mother actually threw her out after she realized that Lucie was having an affair with her sister's fiance. So she just wanted to earn a living and to try to get past all of this. So dealing with Mac seems to be the way to do this.The story is told in the point of views of Lucie and Mac. We learn more about Lucie and the affair and also Mac and the old mill and her deceased husband and how he died plus the story of the sisters. There are secrets, secrets and more secrets from these two women and it is how they come to terms with these secrets that make the story. This book is dark at times, gothic kind of read that should appeal to anyone who loves this genre. I read some reviews that said it started out slow, I didn't feel that way. I just felt that it was a bit lengthy getting into the story but that was ok because it set up the story to its satisfying but not expected conclusion. Lots of twisty turns but that is what makes a great story right? The ending blew me away! Never saw it coming. Great psychological thriller! I enjoyed the book immensely!