![]() Although this has been Margaret’s latest novel, I wanted to start there so as to trace the history she reproduces in fiction by moving forward, rather than back. This climactic episode forms the launch stimulus for her story, delivered as a verbal history in the darkening evenings after the flood. Doggerland was breached by the ocean, probably by a huge tsunami, and the British Isles were separated from the continent in ~6000BC. ![]() Starting with The Gathering Night, the first story in my chosen sequence is set in mesolithic times when the wide plain known as Doggerland connected England to Germany, Netherlands, and Denmark. I’m reading through Margaret Elphinstone’s bookshelf in a chronological order that is pleasing to me. I was delighted to have timed my completion of The Sea Road for this significant date in the calendar. ![]() It was Read a Book Day on the 6th September, recognised internationally as a day in which we should all curl up with a good book. Margaret Elphinstone‘s historical novel based on the Norse Sagas, The Sea Road, traces the epic voyages of Gudrid from Iceland to Greenland, on to Newfoundland, and back home by way of Rome. ![]()
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