My favourite of her novels, wonderful characters and exciting scenes.

Rose Leonard is on the run from her life.

Haunted by her turbulent past, she takes refuge in a remote Hebridean island community where she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. Life and new love are offered by friends, her estranged daughter and most of all by Calum, a fragile younger man who has his own demons to exorcise.

But does Rose, with her tenuous hold on sanity, have the courage to say "Yes" to life and put her past behind her?...

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A passionate, off-beat love story set in the Outer Hebrides, EMOTIONAL GEOLOGY was shortlisted for the WAVERTON GOOD READ AWARD 2006 and was runner-up for PURE PASSION, North West Libraries' award promoting romantic fiction.

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Praise for EMOTIONAL GEOLOGY...

"I dropped everything to read it. Read it that very night, in fact. In one solid chunk. I had things to do, sleep to get, work to wake up for, and yet none of it mattered and nothing could tear me away from this breathtaking story... I've been dreaming of Scotland for the past several nights and I have this book to thank for it."
ANGIEVILLE (US book blog)

“The emotional power makes this reviewer reflect on how Charlotte and Emily Bronte might have written if they were living and writing now.”
NORTHWORDS NOW

“A book about madness, memory and mountaineering that defies categorisation. A love story filled with passion and paint-stripping honesty.” HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS ARTS JOURNAL

“Lyrical, intriguing and haunting.” ISLA DEWAR (Women Talking Dirty)

"Complex and important issues are played out in the windswept beauty of a Hebridean island setting, with a hero who is definitely in the Mr Darcy league!" www.ScottishReaders.net

"What I most liked about it was the writer's evident love for fabric, handiwork of various kinds and the way she brings a whole landscape to life. I'm looking forward to her next." ADELE GERAS (Facing the Light)

The lovely author, Linda Gillard, has given me copies of four of her books to share with bookcrossers. I will be sending them out on bookrays to travel on through the world.

Bookray order:

Penelopewanders SW / send EU
Pennydainty UK / send UK

Sent to Penelopewanders.

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Please enjoy this book, if it is not your genre pass it along to someone else or wild release it. In this way we promote literacy and at the same time we can watch our book continue on its journey.

I look forward to hearing what you thought of the book when you've read it, and to seeing what happens to it next!

This has arrived safely in the Swiss Alps, and the book looks practically new! It also looks like I'm alone on this ray.. If so, this will go on my TBR pile for a bit. If not, please let me know and I'll pick it up sooner rather than later. Thanks so much for sending!

This came as a sort of bookcrossing ray (or an RABCK, not sure). I had never read anything by this author, but I thought this was brilliant. I found the characters very moving and oh so human - even if at times I wanted to shake them a little. The descriptions were powerful, and I am very grateful to have discovered this author. I have already promised to lend this to a colleague (not a bookcrosser though), and I expect I'll have to send this on after I've made everyone I know read it. Thank you so much for making this available and sending it.

Brought to Glasgow from Switzerland and now sent further within the UK... enjoy!

Book arrived safely today. Thanks for passing it on, looking forward to reading this one.

I met the author a few years ago at a Bookcrossing meet up. This was more of a romance style than I thought it would be and that is not my normal genre. I felt the couple were both very needy and fragile. I loved the setting of the Isle of Uist and the hobbies of the couple Poetry, Quilting, art and climbing. I wondered if the book had been written as a cathartic exercise going by what I remember the author was talking about. Will have a think of where I will release this one.

Passed to a friend who is going to leave it in her local Spar shop that has a free to read book shelf.

Passing this one to a friend who will leave it in her local Spar shop that has a free to read book shelf.