Seclusion from the outside world isn't the only troubling aspect of her new life-Rósa is also forbidden from going into Jón's attic. What Rósa did not anticipate was the fierce loneliness she would feel in her new home, where Jón forbids her from interacting with the locals in the nearby settlement and barely speaks to her himself. There Jón works the field during the day, expecting Rósa to maintain their house in his absence with the deference of a good Christian wife. Rósa follows her new husband, Jón, across the treacherous countryside to his remote home near the sea. But after her father dies abruptly and her Mamma becomes ill, Rósa marries herself off to a visiting trader in exchange for a dowry, despite rumors of mysterious circumstances surrounding his first wife's death. Rósa has always dreamed of living a simple life alongside her Mamma in their remote village in Iceland, where she prays to the Christian God aloud during the day, whispering enchantments to the old gods alone at night. In the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca - The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a foreboding landscape and the superstitions of the local villagers. Longlisted for the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award
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