Salt and Skin

Salt and Skin

By Eliza Henry Jones

Genre:-Contemporary Literary Fiction

Pages:-368

Publisher:-September Publishing

Blurb:-Grief-stricken and on the verge of a breakdown, photographer Luda Managan leaves Australia for a commission, bringing her two teenage children to a remote, weather-ravaged but beautiful Scottish island.

 Luda, isolated from her two resentful teenagers, turns her attention to the records from the 17th century island witch hunts and the fragmented life stories of the executed women. Min, her daughter, restless and strong, tries to fill up the space in their family left by her father. She soon finds comfort in both the sea and an unlikely friendship. But the only thing that beautiful and gifted Darcy cares about is getting marks high enough for entry into university-one very, very for away from his mother. Until he meets the wild foundling, Theo, who slowly self-destructing in a community that is both protective and violent towards him. But when a tragic accident unleashes ghosts and the echoes of long-ago violence and betrayal into their lives, the Managans must confront their unspoken histories in order to survive.

  Luminously-written, Salt and Skin is a compelling modern family drama, threaded with folklore and building to an incredible, climactic ending. It's a story of wild landscapes, incomers, outsiders and changelings, and a meditation on the absence of women's voices in stories and history. And like a hyme to the sea, it is unpredictable, startling and beautiful.

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My Review:-Luda Managan brings her teenage children Darcy is 16-years-old and  his sister Min is 14-years-old, they travel from Australia to the remote island of Seannay in Scotland. She hopes this is a new start for them all, after the death of her husband. The children didn't want to come, leave everything they know behind, so as well as being normal teenagers they have the death of their father and moving to the other side of the world to put up with. Luda starts to take photos and documents the effects of the climate change. Lude publishes some photos of a deceased young girl, which doesn't go down well with the local community. The locals do slowly begin to accepted them into the community, which is all that Luda wanted. Min and Darcy start to make friends. Then Theo comes along and everything changes, but not for the better...

I found this book could be a everyday story, they is so much going on in it that you find you're focusing on many things at the same time. We have grief, finding yourself, relationships building between family/people, climate change, witch hunts. I found this was an easy read and I wasn't expecting the ending...