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January 22, 2025 at 11:16 am #33330

These chapters are so well done in how they weave the past and present details so elegantly into the story. They come at perfect points in the action and there are not too many of them so as to bog down the story. There were also many surprises in addition to learning more about their love story; how Martha was assaulted, how Martha learned her trade from a blind midwife, how North married them, how they lost their three children.

It was a very touching detail on the last page of the book when Tempest the fox’s kits sniff the three moss-covered stones. It would not have had much meaning if not for the earlier details of their children being revealed.

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