Wow! The tale of The Selkie Wife is already very intense but very good.  However,  this author took this fairytale and created a Sapphic, illuminating, just brilliant retelling.   Honestly, I couldn't ask for anything better.   This is just brilliant.  

Jean, a midwife in the early 1800s in Nova Scotia, meets Muirin and her husband Tobias.  After getting to know them, she realizes there is definitely a problem in their relationship. 

I really felt the isolation and unsettling feelings that the author created in this book.  The characters and the atmosphere were phenomenally done.  I really was taking by how much I felt a part of this story through the author's descriptions.   

I definitely recommend this!

Out April 9, 2024! 

Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!