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On the Cold Coasts

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On the Cold Coasts

By: Vilborg Davidsdottir, Alda Sigmundsdottir - translator
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
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A horrible storm off the cold coasts of 15th-century Iceland sends the Trinity crashing to shore, with nearly no survivors. For Ragna, the teenage daughter of a respected family who is betrothed to the dashing and wealthy Thorkell, the shipwreck presents a life-changing risk she cannot resist: a handsome sailor named Michael, who is seduced by her gentle singing during his stay in the hospital, then impregnates her and promptly disappears. Thorkell cannot marry her and take in another man’s son, and Ragna is left barren from a traumatic childbirth and stigmatized as a fallen woman.

A decade later, Ragna becomes a housekeeper to the new English bishop in North Iceland, where passionate and ambitious Thorkell is a priest and steward. They embark on a fervent but doomed love affair, as priests cannot marry and Ragna will not be a concubine. As sweeping as it is intimate, On the Cold Coasts is a powerful, enduring story of love and personal sacrifice.

©2012 Vilborg Davidsdottir (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
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A really good book, well translated, we'll read and well written. The book left me wanting more and was sad to reach the end. I would read more from this author. I personally liked the fact the it was a love story without all the usual graphic sex scenes found in romance books.

Really good read

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