The Lost Lights of St Kilda

Elisabeth Gifford

Having read it

★★★★☆

Not a genre – historical romance – I typically go for, if at all, but it was really well written and confident in its exposition and using first-person narrative for the main characters.

However, despite it starting and ending well, the middle was, for me anyway, a little plodding at times and not totally helped by its flow travelling back and forth in time but it all helped with the twists and turns of the characters’ lives and made for a good read.

A good passage

And yet, how was it, that in being together now time seemed to have healed itself, for an ease seeped into the space between us like a silver solder, and we were as comfortable together as only old friends can be, who even after many years may take up an old conversation as if it were halted a day ago. I had not expected that, to feel so at home by her side so readily. Time had done nothing to reduce her beauty, or how much I loved her for all she was.