Angel Harp
A Novel
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4.3 • 8 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Widowed at 34, amateur harpist Marie "Angel" Buchan realizes at 40 that her life and dreams are slowly slipping away. A summer in Scotland turns out to offer far more than she ever imagined! Not only does the music of her harp capture the fancy of the small coastal village she visits, she is unexpectedly drawn into a love triangle involving the local curate and the local duke.
The boyhood friends have been estranged as adults because of their mutual love of another woman (now dead) some years before. History seems destined to repeat itself, with Marie in the thick of it. Her involvement in the lives of the two men, as well as in the community, leads to a range of exciting relationships and lands Marie in the center of the mystery of a long-unsolved local murder. Eventually she must make her decision: with whom will she cast the lot of her future?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Phillips, with more than 50 novels with combined sales of four million, taps into his love for Scotland where he lives part of the year for his newest tale. Canadian harpist Marie Buchan, widowed at the age of 34, revives her dream of visiting Scotland. She discovers Port Scarnose on the coast, where she decides to stay for several weeks. Marie's music captures the attention first of young Gwendolyn, then red-haired curate Iain Barclay, and finally Alasdair Reidhaven, duke of Buchan. Mysterious ties bind these three, and then Marie, as she comes to love the people and history of Port Scarnose and Scotland itself. She vows to uncover the mystery that surrounds the town, but fears she may hurt the people she is becoming attached to. Several out-of-tune notes mar Phillips's tale: long coloratura from Marie on matters spiritual and personal; a leitmotif of hard-to-understand Scottish dialect; and adagio pacing throughout. While Marie's musical, spiritual, romantic, and emotional rebirth will draw readers, the tale is long and winding.
