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|author=Karin Altenberg
|title=Island of Wings
|rating=Unreviewed5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= We donRev Neil MacKenzie has been assigned to the Hebridian island of St Kilda. His mission is to bring the locals back to the Victorian idea of God and propriety. He and his pregnant wife Lizzie not only have to fight the elements but also centuries of superstition that have trickled into the islanders't yet have Christian faith. Life is made harder for Neil by a review secret guilt emanating from the death of this book but we hope a friend years ago. However, the going becomes harder still for Lizzie, isolated by an inability to have one soonspeak the local language and the burgeoning fear engendered by Neil's behaviour and attitudes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857382322</amazonuk>
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