Sarah Tolmie je autorkou rozsiahlej zbierky 120 sonetov a experimentálnych diel, ako sú román a zbierka poviedok. Ako medievalistka, ktorá študovala na University of Toronto a Cambridge, prináša do svojej práce hlboké znalosti stredoveku. Jej písanie sa vyznačuje jedinečným hlasom, ktorý rezonuje s literárnymi tradíciami a zároveň ponúka moderný pohľad. Čitatelia ocenia jej schopnosť preplietať históriu s fikciou a vytvárať tak pútavé diela.
Filled with the magic and darkened whispers of a people on the cusp of major cultural change, this tale follows a Norse trader on his travels through Central Asia, where he barters for horses and returns with much, much more.
Dark, mournful, and beautiful, Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island is a moving and unforgettable story of life and death on the hidden Irish island of Inis Caillte. Huddled in the sea off the coast of Ireland is a fourth Aran Island, a secret island peopled by the lost, findable only in moments of despair. Whether drowned at sea, trampled by Cromwell's soldiers, or exiled for clinging to the dead, no outsiders reach the island without giving in to dark emotion. Time and again, The Fourth Island weaves a hypnotic pattern with its prose, presaging doom before walking back through the sweet and sour moments of lives not yet lost. It beautifully melds the certainty of loss with the joys of living, drawing readers under like the tide.