{"product_id":"a-fire-in-their-hearts","title":"A Fire in Their Hearts","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A gripping story' - The Scotsman\u003cbr\u003e' A poignant love story suffused with a deep, moving humanity' - The Herald\u003cbr\u003e'A memorable novel' - The Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSCOTLAND, 1662.\u003cbr\u003eHunted, held prisoner and banished for a belief...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs civil war rages and King Charles II tightens his grip on the Church of Scotland, childhood sweethearts Violet and Samuel are swept into a violent struggle for religious freedom. They pledge their hearts to each other - and to a cause that will test their faith, courage and love beyond measure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHunted as rebels, imprisoned behind the walls of the infamous Greyfriars Kirkyard and torn from their homeland, Violet and Samuel are sentenced to a life of indentured servitude on the brutal sugar plantations of Barbados. But when their ship wrecks off the coast of Orkney, they become separated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlone and captive in a foreign land, Violet must summon every ounce of strength to survive the horrors she faces - and to cling to the hope that Samuel is still alive. Can love endure across oceans, through wars and captivity?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Fire in Their Hearts is a powerful, epic tale of love, faith and survival, inspired by the extraordinary true events of the seventeenth-century Killing Times, by the bestselling author of The Last Witch of Scotland, Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Heartfelt and devastating . . . Philip Paris's remarkable story-telling brings some of the darkest episodes in Scottish history memorably to light.'\u003cbr\u003eS.G. MacLEAN, bestselling author of The Bookseller of Inverness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An utterly heart-wrenching novel.'\u003cbr\u003eFIONA VALPY, author of The Sky Beneath Us\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51925941977410,"sku":"9781785307744","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/7822\/1890\/files\/a-fire-in-their-hearts.jpg?v=1782020494","url":"https:\/\/greatkiwibook.store\/products\/a-fire-in-their-hearts","provider":"The Great Kiwi Bookstore Kaiapoi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}