A Rip in the Veil

By Anna Belfrage,

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'A Rip in the Veil' is the first book in The Graham Saga, Anna Belfrage's time slip series featuring time traveller Alexandra Lind and her seventeenth century husband, Matthew Graham. On a muggy August day in 2002 Alexandra Lind is inexplicably thrown several centuries backwards in time to 1658. Life…

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2 authors picked A Rip in the Veil as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Anna Belfrage is a skilled storyteller, and I particularly like the way she develops her characters by gradually revealing more details of their complex backstories. Readers will like the glimpses of the real history which will make them want to find out more, and there are plenty more books in the Graham series to keep them guessing.

As soon as I met her, I liked the main character, quick-witted, intelligent Alex, who found herself stranded in 1658 even though she is a woman of the 21st century. This is time travel where belief has to be suspended – easily, in this case – where the author combines two timelines into a credible and highly entertaining series of adventures for Alex and Matthew Graham, a 17th-century Scotsman.

Shades of Outlander? The time travel and the political events of the period yes – everything else, no. Miss Belfrage’s characters are very much her (and their!) own creation,…

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