I enjoyed this up to about the first third of the book when I became supremely bored. The plot slowed way down, Hetty our main protagonist had the personality of a wet flannel, and the romances were badly written. There was a scene which i assume was meant to come across passionate but to me it read like a rape.

There was too much sexism and not enough correction of it on the page, which made me uncomfortable. Comments like one man threatened to beat his wife if she carried on with her suffragette work during a happy little picnic and no one batted an eye.

The only saving grace for it was the setting in the Outer Hebrides and the descriptions of the beautiful landscape.

Trigger warnings for sexism, threat of domestic violence, animal cruelty, several animal deaths on the page, loss of a loved one, elitism and miscarriages.