The defeated English retreat from their disastrous Spanish campaign against Napoleon, among them Captain Lacroix haunted by memories of a village massacre; rather than rejoining his regiment he flees to the Hebrides, unaware an English corporal and a Spanish officer are in pursuit. We follow the hunted and the hunters from island to island as Lacroix finds some sort of redemption and gradually we learn the truth. Written in such vivid, luminous prose that the past becomes as immediate as the present day.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 94 Autumn 2019 ) |
