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Mairi

Mairi
  • Publisher: Oolichan Books
  • Available in: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0-88982-122-4
Available at Amazon.ca

“Out of alchemy, feminism, the Highland Clearances and some of the great philosophical discourses of the 18th century comes an unforgettable first novel of power and insight. Mairi is a tale of a primitive Highland woman cast by fate onto English shores and into the arms of an intellectual English aristocrat. It is also a metaphysical argument, a lyric cry and a passionate denunciation of the heedless male urge to use and destroy the created world.” – The Ottawa Citizen

 Fleeing the violence of the Highland Clearances of the early 1800s, when clan lairds evicted the people to make way for sheep, Mairi, a young Scotswoman, escapes in a small boat. Adrift, she comes to shore near the coastal estate of a wealthy Englishman, Gregory Treemaster, where she attempts to regain her memory of her traumatic past. The love affair between Mairi and Treemaster ends ultimately in a wrenching betrayal that mirrors the rupture of centuries-old trust between the Scottish lairds and the clansmen and women who looked to them for protection.


© Wendy MacIntyre, 2017