The Blackhouse by Carole Johnstone (HarperCollins UK)

This is a story about grief and sorrow. 

When Maggie was five years old, she announced that someone in the remote village of Blairmore in the Outer Hebrides had murdered a local man. She believed that she had once been that man called Andrew MacNeil. He died, drowned and when woke up, he was she, Maggie.

Now, Maggie is determined to discover what really happened and what the villagers are hiding. But everyone has secrets, and some are deadly. As she gets closer to the horrifying truth, Maggie’s own life is in danger.

Maggie lost her job, fiance, and her mum. And in all that, herself. And yet, she finally understands that it’s never too late. Because the end is never the end. There will always, always be time. To love, to forgive. To live.

Poetic and full of dark atmosphere.

3/5