What readers say
4.5/5 🌟 I received this ARC from the publisher, HarperVia and enjoyed every bit of it. This story was absolutely beautiful and equally devastating. The author’s writing is personal and gripping. It is so easy to feel empathy for the protagonist. Anna is a writer who is selected for a writing retreat in the middle of nowhere. She brings with her nothing but writer’s block, immense grief, and a bag of clothes. Anna has no inspiration and lack of overall interest, until she sees a face in the bog outside her cabin. The police are called by a neighbor, speculations arise that it’s a murder scene, but Anna knows something. She can sense the woman’s history. She knows why she was brought here. A team of archaeologists arrive to excavate the body from the dirt, Anna befriends them and they guide her through their process. The careful extraction of the body from the ground. One of the archaeologists, Jen, believes that Anna was meant to write the story of the woman in the bog. She can sense the connection between the two women, and knows that the universe brought Anna here for a reason. The story is beautiful, it is dark and it is powerful. I am so grateful that I was gifted a copy of this, because I probably would have not discovered it otherwise.