The Water of Life (Uisge beatha)

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Uisge beatha, Scottish Gaelic for ‘whisky’, is literally ‘the water of life’.

Driven by a mysterious voice, Elizabeth Legrand plunges headlong into an insane project: opening a distillery in her small, isolated Canadian community in Georgian Bay. Using ancient reserves of Glen Dubh, a mythical Scotch thought lost to the world, she hopes to create a single-malt whisky better than anything distilled in Scotland. However, the only thing that could prove worse than failing to revive the Glen Dubh is if she succeeds.

The water of life, incarnated in the Fearmòr clan’s whisky for over five centuries, is tainted by the dramatic and sometimes fatal struggles of the distillers. It bends the will of those it touches: guiding them or condemning them to their fate. This turbulent family saga spans two continents and several generations of three lineages, climaxing with the tragic arrival of the whisky in Lake Huron.

The present-day descendants of the bloodlines are about to meet, and so will begin yet another tumultuous chapter in the odyssey of “the water of life”, mixing the captivating tale of Scotch whisky with the challenges of Georgian Bay coastal life.

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$24.95

Book Details

Weight 358 g
Dimensions 229 × 152 mm
Extent

322 pages

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Genre

Historical Fiction, Paranormal

Release date

27 July 2015

ISBN

9781922200266

Imprint

Odyssey Books

About The Author

Daniel Marchildon

Daniel Marchildon

Daniel Marchildon is a French-speaking Canadian author born and raised in Penetanguishene, (Ontario, Canada) a small community 160 km north of Toronto near Lafontaine. In his thirty years as a freelance writer, he has published thirteen novels in French, as well as short stories and historical works. He has also written the screenplay of a feature film, La Sacrée (Holy Brew in the English subtitled version) produced in Canada in 2011.

1 review for The Water of Life (Uisge beatha)

  1. Jury of the Émile-Ollivier Prize, September 2009

    Daniel Marchildon’s novel stands outs by its originality, the quality of his writing and depth of his research. It rapidly draws the reader into a strange realm where the characters dream of achieving a life of happiness, peace, and love.

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