Clear: A Novel | 
pickScottish minister leaves his wife behind and sets off to a remote island intending to evict its lone inhabitant. This atmospheric book is just beautifully written. It was a little too slim for me. I could have used at least another 150 pages. That said, I have not stopped thinking about it since I finished reading it two days ago.
pickA minister trying to eke out a living during the Scottish clearances takes a commission to travel to a far north Scottish island to remove the final inhabitant. This novella is both intimate and vast and atmospheric in all the best ways. I enjoyed the read and absolutely loved the ending.
pickI‘m still processing this stunning book but what I can say… it‘s stunning, heartbreaking in many ways.
pickAchingly beautiful writing. Superb! 💙
Davies sets this novella in Scotland 1843 during the Great Disruption (church rebellion) and the Clearances (mass removal of poor rural tenants). John Ferguson is hired to remove Ivar, the sole tenant of an Orkney island and the only home he has ever known, to be replaced by sheep. Things happen…….I can‘t share more.
I thought I knew where the story was going, but at each turn I was surprised!
All other reading is coming to a screeching halt today! 👏🏾
Davies became an auto buy author years ago after reading Redemption of Galen Pike. Every single story in it was 10 for me. Since then I‘ve read all her other writing and I sound like a fan girl. 😂
pickThis title comes out in April and I highly recommend this one. Very atmospheric and based on actual historic events of Scottish Clearances. Keep your eye out for this one.
