Name: On the Edge of Darkness
ISBN: 9780007320950

Barbara Erskine

Stunning repackage of the story of a woman trapped in the wrong time. Abandoned by her twentieth century lover, she plots a terrible revenge on him and his family.

On the Edge of Darkness

The eagerly awaited new novel by the author of LADY OF HAY and HOUSE OF ECHOES is the story of a woman trapped in the wrong time. Abandoned by her twentieth century lover, she plots a terrible revenge on him and his family. Adam Craig is fourteen when, near an isolated Celtic stone in the wild Scottish Highlands, he meets Brid, whose exotic, gypsy-like dress and strange attitudes fascinate him. They become friends, then, in time, passionate lovers. Brid leads him, unsuspecting, into the sixth century, where training as a Druid priestess she has mastered their ancient mysteries and powerful magic. In her obsession with Adam she is seen as a traitor by her people and only escapes death by following Adam through time to Edinburgh, where he goes to study medicine. As the years pass he makes new friends, and finds new love, causing Brid to be consumed by a violent rage that knows no bounds. For fifty years, from Scotland to England to Wales, Brid will haunt Adam like an evil shadow. It is finally Adam's granddaughter, Beth, who helps discover the secret that will free them from the terror of Brid's curse.

Mari-Anne Hughes

There were moments in this book that were brilliant... And moments where I was verbally abusive towards it...
A massive build up to what could of been a fantastic, satisfying finalie... But it ends with a whimper. I don't think the author knew how to end it, so took the easy way out. 

I've never thrown a book across a room after finishing it before... 

Frustrating to read, but the good bits are REALLY good, so it's spurs you to read on. Character development is good, I genuinely cared for them... But the skipping of time was annoying, skipping a decade at a time (or a couple of decades!) felt ridiculous, unnatural, and disturbed the flow of the story for me.

I don't usually condone getting physically violent with books, but I made an exception for this one....

On the Edge of Darkness

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