Our neighbours M & D left a care package in the mailbox – a pair of novels. I started into the first one the other day – Gil Adamson’s first novel, The Outlander. It turns out this is a page-turner, and it pulled me right in, taking me back in time to 1903.

The Outlander is the story of a young woman on the run after killing her husband with a single gunshot to the leg. Her husband’s brothers are after her, in hot pursuit as she heads west into the foothills of the Canadian Rockies.

This is a fantastic adventure story, beautifully written, a story with a number of surprises, not the least of which occurs when Mary, the central character, finds herself amidst a very famous Canadian natural disaster, at a place it happens I’ve visited on multiple occasions.

Excellent and highly recommended.