A missing child, a buried tin of coins, and a terrible secret lie at the heart of Muriel Macleod’s extraordinary first novel set deep in the back country of early-20th-century Louisiana, where lawlessness still reigns and the voodoo curses and charms of the old ways hold sway.
Muriel is from Stornoway. A graduate in Fine Art and a distinguished artist and animation film producer, for nine years she was Director of the British Fulbright Scholars Association, and for twenty years illustrated articles for the Scottish edition of the Times Educational Supplement. She lived in the Caribbean for many years, where much of her inspiration comes from.
‘A spellbinding novel’ Booker prize-winner Marlon James