A novel of love and friendship, hatred and remorse, full of intrigue, in a small town Scotland.
Robbie Fraser has just lost two women in his life: he had divorced his wife and his mother has just died. Has never heard from her father until just after the funeral of his mother, receives an anonymous note sent from a small Scottish town, in which he reported that his father is in danger. Robbie decides to travel to this town and solve all the riddles contained in his past. To do this, is installed in the house of his father and begins investigating the life of this man who is completely unknown to him. Find pictures of his baby with his father and mother, and letters his father sent him and which were returned unopened. In this process meets Heather, a young woman who will help you in your research.
- The fisherman's daughter
- Original title: The Fisherman's Daughter
- Author: Molly Jackson
- Publisher: Plaza & Janes, Fiction Female / February 2011
- ISBN: 9788401383762
- Genre: Contemporary
The fisherman's daughter is first all a story of jealousy and revenge rather than a story of love and friendship. It consists of five parts, the first three are well defined, in the first know Robbie Fraser and witness insight into their future bleak and desolate, into his past, lonely childhood with her mother, a father figure without a face and many questions unanswered. And to add more uncertainty, he gets an anonymous letter telling him that his father is in danger. Driven by an impulse, leaves London and heads to a small fishing village in Scotland, where he discovers that his father, Hamish Fraser, has disappeared and never stopped thinking about him in the little Robbie. The questions do nothing but grow until the door of the house of his father appears a woman, Heather. She is the only one that seems to have the answers you need.
The second part know Hamish, her happy childhood. led by its open and cheerful, we witness MacBain befriends a reclusive child, fresh from Edinburgh who knows nothing but violence his alcoholic father taught indiscriminately to all members of your family. With this newfound friendship you plant the seed of all the misfortunes that plagued the life of Hamish to become the lone man who discovers Robbie and search.
In the third part we see how about jealousy and envy can lead to the most cruel revenge through deception, lies that undermine even the deepest affections.
In these last two parts of the novel, many times my blood was boiling because the events and the repercussions were seen coming in that the novel is anticipated, which aroused my indignation against injustice. And indeed, after finishing the story, I left a bittersweet taste.
The fisherman's daughter has a lively narrative that reads fast but in the second part some chapters made me a little longer, although I admit that Hamish needed to know and understand their mistakes and as those of others involved. But that feeling was most evident to me when you get to the quarter and especially in the fifth, which is the outcome, where answers come. In these two parties, especially the last, everything seemed rushed, too many revelations in a few pages, revelations that have an impact on the lives of the protagonists. While the second part the author took the trouble to be detail-oriented, do not understand why it happened so above the rest. I do not know, but I got the feeling that we had to top it off, as if he had just time. And this had its impact on certain characters that had an ending that did not convince me. I will not say who I speak specifically to not reveal, but to turn a manipulative and arrogant to docility and resignation in such short time I was not convinced.
In short, the story is good, jumping from present to past. To a certain mode are two stories, the parents and children.
"That's the difference between us thought Robbie, the older generation thinks it has to suffer for the mistakes and refuse what life has to offer."
And they will have to deal with errors parent. If we ignore the end a little hit, I enjoyed the book and its characters, some odious, some weak, or brave and Hamish, for me the true protagonist of this story. A character that attracts the reader's sympathy even though his errors, his naivete when to trust others.
Yet it is not a novel that left and right advise, first, because if you seek romance, is almost nonexistent, and is that part of the novel precipitated. If you demoralize injustice, forget it because I left a bittersweet taste, no justice, but ... I say no more because there are things that can not be reversed. And finally, because despite being well told, with some very well-shaped characters, in my opinion you have missed something.
And here I would make a small section. When I read a book, I like to know something of the author and in this case sought. I was surprised not to find a single photo of the author, no data. The only certainty is that the fisherman's daughter seemed to be his first novel, which I was surprised by the ease in the narrative. And since I'm curious by nature, I kept looking because I was really intrigued by Molly Jackson ... until I found the truth. It
Molly Jackson is a pseudonym, so far nothing new, but if I say that this author is unknown to all known as Chris Ryan to write novels of an elite that is dedicated to saving the world, is not it funny? That is, Chris Ryan let out your sensitive side with this novel of female narrative genre. But my surprise was further because it appears that Chris Ryan is a hero in real life, a former SAS agent, an elite British army. His feat was the only survivor on a mission during the Gulf War, an adventure that took him to the brink of death and for which he was awarded the Medal of Military Merit and was discharged with honors a few years after the army . After reading the novel, learn this seemed like a detail the most curious.
From what I read, Molly Jackson will be remembered for shooting stars because writing was the fisherman's daughter, according to its author, an experience not to think again because it feels more comfortable writing about what it really means and knows: The life of a man of war.
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