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|title=Island of Wings

|author=Karin Altenberg

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-0857382320

|pages=304

|publisher=Quercus

|date=March 2012

|website=

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|summary=In this compelling book combining adventure, love and historical testimony based on real people's lives, a Presbyterian missionary Rev Neil MacKenzie and his pregnant wife, Lizzie, are sent to the Hebridian island of St Kilda to bring the population back to God, away from their odd superstitions. It's 1830 so they both try to cope with a harsh environment and lifestyle whilst Lizzie has to cope with a different man from the one she thought she'd married.

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If you've enjoyed this and would like to try another [[Orange Prize for Fiction 2012]] long list novel about people fighting odds stacked against them, try [[Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding]].

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[[Category:Literary Fiction]]