Bone Deep

By Sandra Ireland

What happens when you fall in love with the wrong person?
The consequences threaten to be far-reaching and potentially deadly. Bone Deep is a contemporary novel of sibling rivalry, love, betrayal and murder. This is the story of two women: Mac, who is bent on keeping the secrets of the past from her only son, and the enigmatic Lucie, whose past is something of a closed book. Their story is underpinned by the creaking presence of an abandoned water mill, and haunted by the local legend of two long-dead sisters, themselves rivals in love, and ready to point an accusing finger from the pages of history.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Polygon
• Release date: Jul 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9781788850230

Sandra Ireland

Sandra Ireland is the author of the novels Beneath the Skin and Bone Deep. Before turning to fiction, she worked as a journalist. Born in Yorkshire, England, she spent many years in Limerick, Ireland, and now lives near Edinburgh.

Reviews for Bone Deep

[over.the.edge · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Bone Deepby Sandra Ireland2018Gallery4.5 / 5.0A dark, psychological thriller of love, betrayal, sibling rivalry, and murder.Set in the Scottish town of Fettermore, Arthur convinces his mother, a retired historian living alone in a large estate, to hire a Girl Friday to live in the cottage behind her home. So Max hires Lucie to help her transcribe her collection of folklore, and history of 2 sisters. Lucie is very different from Max, but they get along. As Lucie begins to transcribe Max's story of the 2 sisters, it reminds Lucie of her own secrets. Max has secrets of her own age wants to keep hidden. As these two women circle each other, they are forced to confront their own pasts and fears.Atmospheric and gothic, this is only Irelands second novel. Tremendous storyteller and building.#teamslaughter #scarathon #theme @Clwojick

[celticlady53 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Bone Deep is a novel that is a contemporary retelling of a Scottish legend of two sisters who were often by an ancient water mill that now is the home of Mac, a retired academic and writer. These sister's had a sibling rivalry that turned deadly. Mac is working on a new collection of folktales that include these sisters. Mac is a widow and her son wants her to live in an assisted living type place but she refuses.Mac is having frequent bouts of memory loss and wants to complete her work so she hires a young woman, Lucie, to help her type up her notes and other duties. She moves into the Miller's Cottage. Lucie left home, her mother actually threw her out after she realized that Lucie was having an affair with her sister's fiance. So she just wanted to earn a living and to try to get past all of this. So dealing with Mac seems to be the way to do this.The story is told in the point of views of Lucie and Mac. We learn more about Lucie and the affair and also Mac and the old mill and her deceased husband and how he died plus the story of the sisters. There are secrets, secrets and more secrets from these two women and it is how they come to terms with these secrets that make the story. This book is dark at times, gothic kind of read that should appeal to anyone who loves this genre. I read some reviews that said it started out slow, I didn't feel that way. I just felt that it was a bit lengthy getting into the story but that was ok because it set up the story to its satisfying but not expected conclusion. Lots of twisty turns but that is what makes a great story right? The ending blew me away! Never saw it coming. Great psychological thriller! I enjoyed the book immensely!