Allyson Shaw’s Ashes & Stones is a remarkable book, one I imagine I will return to over the years when I want to be reminded of how magic works in literary form.

It is a truly staggering example of how one might balance memory and dream and scholarship and imagination and empathy to create a multifaceted portrait that, without pretending at perfect accuracy…manages to bring long-lost women to enough of a semblance of life that it feels as though they are walking along the hills and the water and the old roads alongside their author and her readers.

—Ariel Marken Jack, Songs from a River’s Edge

I’m honoured to have readers like harpist and author Ariel Marken Jack!

Ashes & Stones is available wherever books are sold.