From the back of the book..
'The remote Turtle Valley in British Columbia is home to fifteen-year-old Beth Weeks and a community of eccentric but familiar characters. There, amidst a stunning landscape of purple swallows and green skies, strange unsettling events occur; children go missing, a girl is mauled by a crazy bear and Beth too is being pursued....The Cure for Death by Lightning is a rich and thrilling novel, as filled with strange deeds and dark fears as with beauty and magic'.
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I love the 'magical realism' genre and although this book wasn't fully a magical realist novel, there were parts of the story that were magical and out of the ordinary.
It was also very brutal. I hadn't expected it and am surprised no mention is made of it in the synopsis. If you are sensitive when it comes to the pain and suffering of animals, beware, there is plenty of it in this book. Fortunately it's balanced with the entrancing story of Beth's first romance, the wonderful recipes, the beauty of the pre- second world war countryside.
Despite the aforementioned occurrences of (often needless) animal suffering, I loved so much about this book, it's was a beautiful, heartbreaking story of a way of life that no longer exists.
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