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I loved so much about this - the place, the nature of story, the realness of Neen's struggle to make sense of her circumstances, the tales within the tale, the gentle flashes of humor, the tension between Christianity and paganism. So it killed me with the needless anachronisms. In the year 900-something (because Vikings and near the millennium), they didn't have figs or almonds on the Isle of Man. I want to give this five stars, but every time one of these references cropped up I was tossed out
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What if your mom was missing for your whole life? What if everyone treated the scales on your arm as a disease? What if you thought your mother might be watching you, from her real life in the sea? This is a cute story that tugs at the heart of anyone who knows what it is like to long for the kind of love that never lets you down.
Aug 09, 2016
Courtney Stein
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