An ambiance ....

The wind, warblers, gray-headed, the moor, the spray, the sun shining wild anemones, the last patches of snow, mysterious nights, a career, Trolls, Elves, their legends, an atmosphere that sinstalle, together with the spring from the first pages on the island Doland off Sweden.

"Smell of limestone and kelp, sea and land. Wind on the beach, the sun shimmering on the strait, winter and spring mixed over the island. "

Lots of different characters live in this environment, they are passing or live permanently. Who are they? An old man who does not want to stay in a nursing home, a man and two children, a couple and their dog and many more A common point between all? They are attached at this location for one reason or another. They will cross, séviter, talking, shut up, lie low, hide, expose himself, look. and then discover in depth glimpse some events of the past but also the present
Lighting in these situations will be provided by short chapters, ranging from one to another, from past to present, from reality to limaginaire, through reading of a diary.

We not navance quickly, this is a little as if nature imposed its rhythm, not spectacular senchaînent of Shares which, not dhémoglobine and violence galore. Only Men, women, children not cheminent step in their lives, trying to control events which from time to time, escape them
The writing is nice, fluid, "airy". The short chapters, alternating individuals, ages, narrative styles (diary or story in the third person) avoid any fatigue the reader.

I appreciated Peter, the tormented (but not too much, it is very human), who wishes to understand the past of his father, his daughter, my combative moved, adjacent are interesting because different and targeted in their character. Jerry himself is endearing in its struggle to speak out words from deep within himself.

What I like in this kind of novel, this is quau beyond the plot itself, there is an atmosphere and is so well described quon has the impression of feeling from every pore of the skin. Moreover, and this too it must be said, we do not find an investigator who takes over the other protagonists. It is there, but does not take up an extreme. Dailleurs can we say quun individual dominates more than others?

I think the element main, almost the "hero", is this island, all live, literally and figuratively, in different ways, linvestissant of their presence, but also their feelings, their souls, giving two this slightly magical land as it transmits their delle .. Some can not be dissociated from the other, this earth docking part of their personal history ..