Orkney
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By Amy Sackville
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On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor; she was his pale, enigmatic star pupil. Alone beneath the shifting skies of this untethered landscape, the professor realises how little he knows about his new bride and yet, as the days go by and his mind turns obsessively upon the creature who has so beguiled him, she seems to slip ever further from his yearning grasp. Where does she come from? Why did she ask him to bring her north? What is it that constantly draws her to the sea?
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Orkney is essentially a tale of obsession. A mis-matched couple- Richard is an 60 year old English professor and his much younger wife are on Honeymoon on one of the orkney Islands. The events that unfold in the book are related entirely by Richard.The mysterious young woman is ethereal , pale and delicate,
with silvery grey flowing hair. She is drawn to the wild sea although she has nightmares about drowning. We never learn her name and she is kept as a mystery to the reader , The descriptions of the flowing sea and the changing weather is beautifully rendered in Amy Sackville's beautiful almost lyrical prose. At the end we are left with a mystery.
