Graham’s younger brother Stuart also has an eye for Carrie but it is clear early on that the spark is between Graham and Carrie.
Both Sophia and Carrie fall in love and have (mostly) happy endings.The romance for Carrie comes from the son of her landlord (she’s renting a cottage in Cruden Bay), a professor of history at the Aberdeen University, Graham Keith. We get Sophia’s story and Carrie’s as she writes about Sophia.
Check the incredible number of books on Goodreads labeled “Highlander Romance.What worked for me (and what didn’t): This is a book within a book. (As I’ve mentioned before, when you add the historical backdrop of Scotland, you win over a large number of American women. There is plenty of history and romance, and there’s something irresistible (to Americans at any rate) about the Scottish setting, accents, and romantic style. (The emphasis is not on the “paranormal” Carrie consulted a local doctor, who told her there is a theory that ancestral memories can be transmitted by DNA.)Īs Carrie continues to write (the chapters of her book, which stem more from Carrie’s unconscious than from any active effort on her part, are interspersed with chapters from the present day), what happens to her parallels, in some ways, what happens to Sophie.īoth stories are quite compelling, and you will feel much as Carrie’s agent does when Carrie gives her what she insists is the final chapter of the book.Įvaluation: This is an excellent book for fans of Diana Gabaldon (who actually should read this book first, since it not only precedes The Outlander Series in its historical framework, but provides great background information on the Jacobite Movement). While at the cottage working on her novel, the main protagonist of which is her ancestor Sophie Paterson, Carrie keeps having the sensation of déjà vu, and soon is forced to accept that she is somehow channeling Sophie’s memories. She rents a cottage near the ruins from a local man, Jimmy Keith, who just happens to have two handsome (and single) sons, Stuart and Graham.Ĭarrie’s book is set at the time of the 1708 Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland, an attempt by the Scots to negate the Union of 1707 between England and Scotland and bring the exiled Catholic King James VIII back from France to take the Scottish throne. This book contains a story within a story ( Mise en abyme is the French term for this literary device, stemming from the practice in heraldry of placing the image of a small shield on a larger shield) using the clever conceit that the main character (in the present) is writing a book about a character in the past.Ĭarolyn (“Carrie”) McClelland, 31, travels to in Aberdeenshire, Scotland to see the ruins of Slains Castle (also known as New Slains Castle), for research for her new novel.
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