She provides the presence that Constance finds difficult, as she yearns to be somewhere else. He trusts Ruby to help Constance look after Leonie, so they all soon become good friends and Ruby develops a maternal bond with Leonie. He befriends a woman who lives in the block of flats opposite, Ruby. Gregor and Constance have a young daughter, Leonie but she has never left the small flat she was born in as her birth wasn’t declared and due to Constance’s claim to be not quite human, Gregor keeps them under close watch. So how did Constance lose her coat? Well… she met a man called Gregor who definitely isn’t all he first seems. From Scottish folklore, a Selkie is a seal woman who needs her seal-fur coat to be able to go back into the sea and, in Constance’s case, return to her Scottish island home. The Replacement is set in the modern day, primarily in Cleethorpes and Northern England, but one of our lead characters, Constance, claims to be a Roane, or Selkie. Opening sentence: Leonie presses her palm to the outside of the cold window. And that’s what gives The Replacement its charm. This book is so good at blending the line between reality and myth, so you’re questioning if characters are deluded or if we’re witnessing something a little special. Do you like your thrillers interwoven with some folklore? Then you’re going to love The Replacement by Melanie Golding.
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