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The Song Catcher (Hardcover)

by Sharyn McCrumb (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)

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  • Hardcover: 292 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (7 Jun 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340717173
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340717172
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,062,137 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars From the cover.........., 19 Feb 2007
Sharyn McCrumb's spellbinding new novel is set once again in the timeless Appalachian Mountains, where the secrets of the present reveal themselves sometimes as gentle stories, sometimes as tragic memories, sometimes as songs.

Folksinger Lark McCourry is haunted by the memory of a song.

As a child she heard it from her relatives in the North Carolina mountains and she knows that the song has been in her family since 1751 when her ancestor, ten-year-old Malcolm McCourry kidnapped from the Scottish island of Islay, learned it aboard an English ship.

The song accompanied young Malcolm when he made his way to New Jersey, where he apprenticed with an attorney, became a lawyer himself, and fought in the American Revolution. The song came with Malcolm in 1790, when he left his family and travelled the Wilderness Road to homestead in western North Carolina, where he remarried and raised a second family. The song, passed down through the generations, carries Malcolm's descendants through the settling of the frontier, the Civil War, the coming of the railroads and into modern times, providing both solace in the present and a link to the past.

Over, the years, though, the memory of the old song has dimmed and Lark McCourry's only hope of preserving her family legacy lies in mountain wise-woman Nora Bonesteel, who talks to both the living and the dead.

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