THE SONGCATCHER by Sharon McCrumb

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McCRUMB, S.

This book is another of McCrumb's wonderful ballad novels. Like those that preceded it, The Songcatcher weaves back and forth through time, in this case 250 years, and a number of characters, past and present.

Lark McCourrie is a famous folksinger flying home to Appalachia to see her estranged and dying father and to undearth one authentic old ballad which has not yet been "discover." She is aided by the familiar Hamlin Characters, most notably Sheriff Arrowood and the redoubtable Nora Bonesteel.

McCrumb entices us throughout the snatches of the sought-after song and the accompanying tale of Malcolm McCourie, Lark's Scottish ancestor and the bearer of the song from the old country. Lovely.