The Bog Wife

The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister

The Bog has given the Haddesley family everything it has needed but this generation of 5 siblings seems to have done something to upset the bog as it didn't send the bog wife to birth the next generation. When middle sister Wenna comes home for the funeral of their father, she tries to free her siblings from the desolate life the bog is holding them to.

It might have been the weirdest book I have ever read. It's like a gothic family drama. Never read anything like it. It's slow. Like really slow and had it been paced a tad faster, this book would have won book of the year for me.

The characters all backwater in their views because they only know the bog. Wenna managed to leave and got married, something that wasn't allowed with their almost cultish belief. It was a bizarre book but I couldn't stop listening. If you need a family drama book with a wild storyline... This is it.

4 stars