Half an Orange in Gretna Green
The seventh book in the Midlife Recorder series
Please make sure you have completed Spilling the Tea (which ends the day before Orange begins) before starting Half an Orange in Gretna Green.
Galicia should be warmth, wine, and golden sunsets.
Instead, Niki McKnight finds a realm where every blessing has a price, every sin comes with a fine, and a powerful church has spent centuries collecting anything of value.
When the Recorder is called to arbitrate what appears to be a simple goat dispute. Niki expects to hear both sides, deliver a fair decision, and send everyone home with minimal shouting, sighing, or divine intervention.
But simple ends the moment she starts pulling threads.
Behind Galicia’s beauty lies a culture shaped by greed, gold, guilt, and carefully polished lies. Children are controlled. The inhabitants are oppressed. Grief is exploited. And the people responsible are certain the Recorder’s authority does not apply to them.
This time, they may be right.
With Dola out of patience, the truth too well hidden, her team struggling and a god on the missing list, Niki must separate faith from control and truth from propaganda
Warm, wry and defiant, Half an Orange in Gretna Green is the next adventure in the Midlife Recorder world: found family, stubborn hope, dangerous secrets, and one woman discovers that justice is harder to deliver when her usual powers don’t apply.
It isn’t all sweetness and light. Or even wine, honey, and figs because there is a darker side to the Galician realm.
But as you would expect, the Gateway crew bring their usual humour as Niki finally understands Alphonse and Sabella’s true situation and sympathises more than she damn well planned to.
Because if no-one respects your authority, what can you do?
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What readers are saying
The best series I’ve read in years!
Just a rollicking story with great characters, a really gripping plot (and) a sense of joy underlying every word
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Reviews for the Midlife Recorder series
“If you like the midlife paranormal genre, I highly recommend this book. The next one cannot come soon enough for me!
The characters are well thought out and engaging and the storyline is far more interesting and complex than a lot of books of a similar genre.”
You know you have found a great author when you really care what happens to their characters, human or otherwise.
Gripped from the first page and couldn’t put it down … gutted when I reached the end
A page turner. Cannot wait for the next instalment.
Fast read with lots of laugh-out-loud moments.
I’m breathlessly awaiting the next book.
This is the kind of story that makes you want to take off work early so you can keep reading it.
It’s so refreshing having mature characters, racial/ethnic diversity, LGBT acceptance, great writing, and fresh ideas all together. Technology mixed with magic is such an interesting concept.
“This was the strangest book, not what I expected at all. It was heart-warming, unpredictable and the characters already feel like friends.
I was so sad to finish it and then delighted when I realized there were more in the series.”
The thing I found hardest to believe? That it was the author’s first book! Why, oh why didn’t she start writing forty years ago??