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LOOK PEOPLE - IGNORE THIS COVER!
Now, while you're ignoring that cover (because it's not representative of the book at all), here's an idea: check the weather forecast for the next few days. If it's going to be cold and wet, sit by the fire with a mug of hot chocolate and read this book. If it's going to warm and sunny, get a seat in the shade and read this book.
This is the story of Marianne, who has been blind since birth, and the hesitant relationship she becomes involved in with the strong, silent Keir. Add in Marianne's sister Louisa, a very successful writer of "Scottish Gothic Vampire Romances" (did you know there was such a genre? The Big Green Bookshop must have a large stock ...), her assistant Garth the Goth, and you have a great deal of humour to season what is a very tender and touching love story.
Apart from the fluency of Linda's writing, what particularly struck me about this book is the wonderfully perceptive and sensitive depiction of what it is to be blind, and to what degree a lack of sight causes a reliance on other senses. There are many references to music, for instance, and Marianne uses music as a cypher for the visual, 'seeing' something by likening it to a particular piece.
Set mostly in Edinburgh and on the Isle of Skye, it's a romance with a difference, original and delightful.
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