But then something made me pick it up a few days later and try again. I actually put it down after the first chapter and decided it wasn’t for me. I wasn’t sure about this book when I first started reading. As Leslie listens to Corrag’s memories he begins to learn the truth about the Glencoe Massacre and at the same time is forced to change his own preconceived ideas about Corrag herself.

Here she met the people of the MacDonald clan and experienced true friendship and love for the first time in her life. With only her grey mare for company, Corrag rode “north and west” and made a new home for herself near the valley of Glencoe. As Corrag sits in her cell awaiting her death, she is visited by Charles Leslie, an Irish clergyman and Jacobite who is trying to find evidence to prove that the Protestant King William III was responsible for what happened at Glencoe.Ĭorrag tells Charles Leslie about her childhood in the north of England and the day her mother, who had also been accused of witchcraft, told her to ride into Scotland, where she believed she would be safe. The story is narrated by Corrag, a young woman who has been branded a witch and sentenced to death for her involvement with the MacDonalds and the part she played in trying to prevent the massacre. In Corrag Susan Fletcher looks at one tragic moment in Scotland’s history – the Glencoe Massacre of 1692 in which thirty-eight members of the MacDonald clan were murdered by English soldiers and forty more died of exposure as they tried to escape. I’ve been curious to see why she loved it so much and now that I’ve read it I agree that it’s a great book, although I didn’t think so at first. I first became aware of this book when Boof of The Book Whisperer said it was one of her favourites.

A little in love by susan fletcher