Echoes of the Runes By Christina Courtenay
Paperback published by Headline Review 5th March 2020
Their love was forbidden. But echoed in eternity.
He would come back. The runes told her so.
When Mia inherits her beloved grandmother’s summer cottage, Birch Thorpe, in Sweden, she faces a dilemma. Her fiance Charles urges her to sell and buy a swanky London home, but Mia cannot let it go easily. The request to carry out an archaeological dig for more Viking artefacts like the gold ring Mia’s grandmother also left her, offers her a reprieve from a decision – and from Charles.
Whilst Mia becomes absorbed in the dig’s discoveries, she finds herself drawn to archaeologist Haakon Berger. Like her, he can sense the past inhabitants whose lives are becoming more vivid every day. Trying to resist the growing attraction between them, Mia and Haakon begin to piece together the story of a Welsh noblewoman, Ceri, and the mysterious Viking, known as the ‘White Hawk’, who stole her away from her people in 869 AD.
As the present begins to echo the past, and enemies threaten Birch Thorpe’s inhabitants, they will all have to fight to protect what has become most precious to each of them.
MY REVIEW
Their love was forbidden. But echoed in eternity.
Mia works for Department of Prehistory and Europe that included the Viking period. When her grandmother died she was left a ring in shape of a snake, that had been in her family for many years. Mia is most annoyed with Haakon Berger first he thinks the ring could be a fake, then he thinks she just found the ring, then when he finds out the ring Mia is wearing is a family heirloom he then firmly believes that it should be in a museum.
When Mia is left her grandmothers cottage Birch Thorpe in Sweden Haakan Berger wants to do an archeological dig there as a suitable Viking settlement. As Mia has inherited her grandmothers cottage she agrees to an archaeological dig on the land as long as she can be co- director of the project dig. There are many surprises found during the archaeological dig. I loved reading this book with a fabulous cast of characters. A believable story. A must read.
This is an area that I’m quite interested in as I have read books before about archaeological digs.
I also don’t live that far from Canterbury, in Kent, where on our local news and in my local paper had been reported that The Canterbury Archaeological Trust have carried out archaeological digs and found several Roman Saxon skeletons, pottery and medieval stone. When archaeologists start a dig they never know what their going to find until they start the dig. Many things can be found to Roman through to Saxon and medieval times.
I have read quite a few books by Christina Courtenay, when Christina was published with Choc Lit. New England Rocks, The Secret Kiss of Darkness and The Soft Whisper Dreams. All my reviews for these books I gave 5 stars too on Goodreads.
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I would like to thank Emily at headline for sending me the paperback Echoes of the Runes by Christina Courtenay, it has been a very interesting book to read and review.
ABOUT AUTHOR Christina Courtenay
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Christina Courtenay writes Historical Fiction, and Young Adult
Christina Courtenay is an award winning author of historical romance and time slip dual time stories. She started writing so that she could be a stay at home mum to her two daughters but didn’t get published until daughter number one left home aged twenty one, so that didn’t quite go to plan! Since then, however, she’s made up for it by having eleven novels published and winning the RNA’s Romantic Novel of the Year Award for Best Historical RomanticNovel twice with Highland Storms in 2012 and The Gilded Fan in 2014 both books are published by Choc Lit
Half English/half Swedish, grew up in Sweden, then moved to Japan for a while. Christina loves reading and writing history, archaeology and genealogy.
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