Women of the Dunes

Critics Review

• Sarah Maine is a master of Scottish historical fiction

  Sunday Post

• In Women of the Dunes, her two passions – archaeology and historic fiction – merge powerfully to create the atmospheric world of Libby Snow

  Sunday Post

• Maine adroitly weaves together the three strands of her novel

  Sunday Times

• Praise for Beyond The Wild River

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• Maine writes beautifully about the wilderness

  The Times

• Maine’s beautifully detailed descriptions of the American hinterlands provide a stunning setting for this historical tale of intrigue and suspense

  Booklist

• Descriptive passages of lush, beautiful landscapes frame Maine’s riveting portrait of a thoughtful young woman who yearns for more than is offered by her station and her gender, and the rough-and-tumble young man who is inexorably drawn to her.

  Publishers Weekly

• Maine’s gift of setting the mood shines in her latest novel… Fans of Kate Morton’s rich-with-atmosphere novels will feel right at home.

  RT Reviews

• Praise for The House Between Tides

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• There is an echo of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca in Sarah Maine’s appealing debut novel

  Independent

• A tremendous accomplishment. So assured, so well-judged, and with such an involving story to tell, this might be the author’s fifth or sixth novel, not her first. A literary star is born!

  Ronald Frame, author of The Lantern Bearers and Havisham

• …it came as a great surprise to learn that this was the author’s debut novel. I predict great things for Sarah Maine.

  The Book Bag

• Scotland’s Outer Hebrides provides the sensuous setting for [this] impressive debut…[a] beautifully crafted novel.

  Publishers Weekly

• Maine skillfully balances a Daphne du Maurier atmosphere with a Barbara Vine-like psychological mystery…The setting emerges as the strongest personality in this compelling story, evoking passion in the characters as fierce as the storms which always lurk on the horizon. A debut historical thriller which deftly blends classic suspense with modern themes.

  Kirkus Reviews

• Maine contrasts Hetty’s present-day consternation with the past story of Blake and his wife, delivering details at a perfectly suspenseful pace… the historic mystery will keep readers guessing right up until the end.

  Booklist