Five out of five quills
A REVIEW The Lewis Man by international best selling author, Peter May
Peter May writes in black and white. I rarely see ‘color’ in his books….and that’s high praise.
He plunks me down in
the stark, forbidding Outer Hebrides, a group of islands northwest of Scotland and bared to the North Atlantic Sea.
“A sky torn and shredded by the wind. A sky that leaks sunlight in momentary flashes to spill across dead grasses where the white tips of bog cotton dip and dive in frantic eddies of turbulent air….” ( prose at its best!)
After reading about the people settled there one wonders why they stay. And that is at the core of why his characters are so intriguing and entertaining. There is little soil on these rocks jutting out of the sea. And trees for shelter and fuel? Forget that. But peat bogs flourish and provide fuel for heat in the oldest tradition of the Gaelic world. When a body turns up in a bog the remains could be a month old, several decades old, and in some instances, centuries old.
As I’ve mentioned before I’m not a reviewer who fills the page with a synopsis of the story. For me, the reader, it spoils it to be given the plot on a plate. Continue reading “‘The Lewis Man’ by Peter May…a Review”