Charles Leslie heard of the massacre and came to visit Corrag in her cell where she is chained and awaiting her death. Susan Fletcher immediately transported me so thoroughly to a time and place, to ways of thinking and perceiving they are, for the time being, a part of me. However, in the case of Corrag, a fierce storm started up as soon as the boat set out for the island, forcing it to turn back to shore. In Glencoe we had Corrag, who is said to have lived a solitary life in the mountains and been of “outstanding badness”.

Fletcher frequently juxtaposes sadness and joy as she emphasizes her themes of kindness and tolerance, death and grief, and following one's heart. It’s about finding one’s place and about two people’s journeys – one physical, one of the conscience. When I first started this book, i was worried as so many of my GR friends had raved about it, and I didn’t connect with it right away. It's hard to review a book that 2 trusted friends love and revere, because, even though you may like the book, maybe there is something missing for you. Set in the Highlands of Scotland, 1692, the title character Corrag has been branded a witch for warning the MacDonalds of Glencoe of an impending massacre.Nature itself is a main character, especially the Scottish Highlands, where Corrag decides to make her home. A man of compassionate faith, Reverend Charles Leslie is initially repelled by Corrag and, as are the majority of persons, he instantly assumes she is guilty of all charges and worthy of her fate. Eventually, they gave up, and Corrag was instead buried by the shore near Ballachulish, overlooking the loch. From time to time Corrag speaks of what it might feel like to be set on fire; she does it in prose that singed and seared my soul. But, if one sits down with a human being and really gets to know them, the truth may transform us, as it did Charles.

Charles Leslie, a supporter of the former King James, makes his way from Ireland in the dead of winter to a prison in Inverary Scotland where a witness to the massacre is housed. I have so many passages marked in this book; I can find a quote that speaks to me on almost every page. Basada en los hechos reales de la masacre de Glencoe en 1692 en Escocia, donde los miembros del clan McDonald fueron asesinados por haber firmado seis días tarde el tratado para jurar lealtad a Guillermo de Orange. This is historical fiction that is both character study and a telling of the massacre at Glencoe in which men, women and children of the MacDonald clan were killed by members of the Campbell clan for failing to swear an oath to William of Orange aka King William III. In my English life, they took old truths - my snowy birth, how I liked marshy places - and pressed them into proper lies, like how they saw me lift up a shoulder and turn into a crow.Ultimately, Corrag is arrested and accused of witchcraft and murder for her supposed involvement in the Glencoe Massacre.