The Boy Who Makes Wooden Box Sing - Paperback

by Gerry Burnie (Author)

Seth McAlpin is an exceptionally talented classical violinist whose dream it is to play the great concert halls of Europe. However, his dream is interrupted when his father decides to move his family to 19th-century Canada in pursuit of a position with the legendary Hudson's Bay Company. Seth is bitterly disappointed, but along the way, he meets and falls in love with a handsome sailor by the name of Sweyn Knutsson, a descendant of Cnut the Great, ancient King of Denmark, Norway, and England. Nonetheless, their romance is cut short when Sweyn is called back to Norway to attend his dying father. Before he leaves, however, he tells Seth to have faith in Örlög, the mythical Norse god of fortune, to bring them together again.Will Örlög follow through despite the fact that Sweyn is now a nobleman and they are half-a-world apart? The answer may surprise you.