Little Wing: A beautifully written, emotional and heartwarming story

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The backdrop of the Isle of Harris, in the Outer Hebrides plays a starring role in this story and rightly so. We join these main characters on an intimate emotional journey tracing their past and connecting with loved ones. I listened to it on audiobook and the narrator was superb and enhanced the story massively (not that it needed it).

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Sure to pull at your heartstring and make you hug your loved ones a little tighter, Little Wing is one of those books you'll want to hold on to forever and share with all your friends and family. There are also relationships with the land explored in the book and having visited Harris, I found this a particularly well developed strand of the story. When Nell finds out something about her childhood that rips her world apart and Dougie realises that his job is taking him further away from who he really is, can they both take a step back to find themselves? It wraps itself around your heart whilst you are reading it, endearing you to beautiful settings, loveable characters and unravelling secrets. But it hasn’t made me want to run out and read all of Freya North’s back catalogue as there’s other easy readers out there that are better.It is full of feeling and there is a sense of poignancy that gradually builds from the pages uncovering hidden secrets and complex family histories and circumstances. In addition to the three main characters, I loved the portrayal of the kind and compassionate nurse in both the present and past timelines.

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My dad lives in the highlands (one of the most stunning places I've ever been), so I can only imagine the rugged and harsh beauty of the most remote part of the UK. Also, this is the second book I've read recently with a young mother raising a baby completely on her own in an isolated location and absolutely revelling in every minute of it. Her portrayal of love in so many forms, especially the parental love that Flora has for Nell, and Gordon has for Dougie were simply beautiful.However I would give the part on Harris 5 stars as it really came alive with vivid descriptions of the island. Firstly, I question whether someone could really be in their mid 30s and have never seen their own birth certificate/know where they were born. The characters felt very real and three dimensional and I was emotionally invested in them all so much so that I felt undeniably bereft when I turned the last page.