The Gracekeepers
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3.9 • 19 Ratings
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
A flooded world.
A floating circus.
Two women in search of a home.
North lives on a circus boat with her beloved bear, keeping a secret that could capsize her life.
Callanish lives alone in her house in the middle of the ocean, tending the graves of those who die at sea. As penance for a terrible mistake, she has become a gracekeeper.
A chance meeting between the two draws them magnetically to one another - and to the promise of a new life.
But the waters are treacherous, and the tide is against them.
'The Gracekeepers is enchanting and heart-tugging. If you love Margaret Atwood you'll love this' Sunday Telegraph
'A wondrous read' Stylist
'Clever and original' The Times
'Truly magical' Heat
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Glasgow-based writer Kirsty Logan’s first novel is a marvel. The Gracekeepers is set in a fantastical but not so far-fetched world where land is a shrinking commodity reserved for select landlockers and most people spend their lives at sea, as damplings. Drawing inspiration from Scottish folktales, Logan weaves a hypnotic tale about the members of a floating circus and an ethereal young gracekeeper named Callanish—one of the chosen few selected to live in isolation and bury the dead. We loved being whisked into this strange world and discovering the secret that binds Callanish to North, the orphaned girl who performs with a giant bear.
