Billie's Kiss
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Billie's Kiss

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Billie's Kiss

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With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest, and surprising, earthy, and magical qualities, this irresistible novel is set on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling, one half of which looks historically and geographically towards Catholic Ireland, the other toward the Protestant north and Scandinavia. In the spring of 1903 a ship explodes as it docks on the island, drowning many of the passengers and crew in the icy waters of Stolnsay harbor. Young, strawberry-blonde-haired Billie Paxton is among the only survivors. Clumsy, illiterate, and suddenly alone, Billie will not say why, before the explosion, she jumped from ship to shore, and so falls under the immediate suspicion of her fellow passenger, Murdo Hesketh, and his cousin and employer, Lord Hallowhulme, who owns the island—and has controversial plans for improving the lives of its inhabitants. Gloriously inventive and vividly atmospheric, Billie's Kiss conjures up a way of life hurtling toward a brave new world in an enchanting novel that brings together murder and eugenics, progress, prejudice, and the loss of innocence.

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Publisher
Victoria University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780864737274
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Crime & Mystery Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Author’s Note
  6. Table of Contents
  7. 1 : The Gustav Edda
  8. 2 : Stolnsay
  9. 3 : Among the Dead
  10. 4 : The Elder Betler
  11. 5 : Kiss Castle
  12. 6 : Billie Is Examined Again
  13. 7 : Theft as a Servant
  14. 8 : Scouse Beach
  15. 9 : Clo Mor (The Big Cloth)
  16. 10 : Milt and Roe
  17. 11 : Fortune and the Four Winds
  18. 12 : Coming to Grief
  19. 13 : A Cadaveric Grip
  20. 14 : Priming Charge, Base Charge
  21. 15 : Maintaining a Good Character
  22. 16 : Port Clarity
  23. ALSO BY ELIZABETH KNOX
  24. Copyright