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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Linda Annas Ferguson’s What the Mirrors Knew, Anna Grace O’Neill lives alone beside the Ashley River in Charleston after losing her husband and settling into a familiar life. When Grace finds a journal belonging to her Irish grandmother, Aine, an inscription from the grandfather she never knew raises questions about a past her family rarely discussed. The discovery draws Grace toward Ireland, where she hopes to understand Aine’s history and consider what she wants from her future. Once there, encounters that seem strangely familiar begin testing her ideas about coincidence and reality as places connected to her ancestry appear to carry meanings she cannot easily explain. With dreams, mirrors, and memories repeatedly pointing beyond everyday experience, Grace continues across Ireland, unsure whether she is following chance or something that has been waiting for her.
Linda Annas Ferguson’s What the Mirrors Knew is fantastic literary fiction, and Grace is someone who we genuinely want to root for. Ferguson fleshes her out as someone drawn toward what she cannot explain, such as stepping onto Kevin’s stage and following silent cues through a magic performance built around quantum physics. Kevin is a wonderfully intriguing presence, and his scientific thinking sits naturally beside the book’s unexplained possibilities. This is someone who turns roses from red to blue before making a tiny chest vanish, and it is fascinating. Where the author truly shines is in the descriptions of Ireland, from a Burren sunrise turning the water pink beneath the Morning Star, to an old country church beyond a cairn with an arched doorway and fallen tombstones. Well written and absorbing, readers who enjoy literary fiction with magical realism will adore this.
