The Sealwoman's Gift - the extraordinary book club novel of 17th century Iceland
- 'A remarkable feat of imagination
- I enjoyed and admired it in equal measure' Sarah Perry
- Author of The Essex Serpent In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people
- Including 250 from a tiny island off the mainland
- Among the captives sold into slavery in Algiers were the island pastor
- His wife and their three children
- Although the raid itself is well documented
- Little is known about what happened to the women and children afterwards
- It was a time when women everywhere were largely silent
- In this brilliant reimagining
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| Home | The stories in her head |
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| And there are others, too | The stories we tell ourselves to protect our minds from what cannot otherwise be borne the stories we need to make us happy icelandic history has been brought to extraordinary life |
