![]() Ultimately Mara has to choose which path to take. In the meantime Mara has to balance her guilt, relationship with her parents and more importantly, her love/hate relationship with the island. ![]() We readers learn that after a disastrous relationship with a male, Mara learns about her sexuality and talents, in short discovers herself. Mara’s relationship with Pearl is the crux of the book. When her younger brother dies in an accident and her elder sister emigrates, she is at her lowest point in her life and to escape the loss Mara turns to reading, which result in her meeting Pearl, who she falls in love with. The main protagonist of the book is Mara, a girl who lives on an island, where old people go to a cliff edge to die (they turn into stone) ,and is steeped in lore and superstition. However Logan is clever and uses myth to probe into deeper subjects. The reason behind this wave of nostalgia is because Kirsty Logan’s writing has a magical quality to it and she includes Scottish mythology in this book which enhances the reading experience. ![]() While reading The Gloaming, I felt like I was transported to that point in my childhood, when I discovered fairy tales. ![]()
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