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Non-classifiable

Berth

by (author) Carol Bruneau

Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Initial publish date
Nov 2018
Category
NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Contemporary Women, Family Life
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781896951850
    Publish Date
    Jul 2005
    List Price
    $29.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771086165
    Publish Date
    Oct 2018
    List Price
    $22.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771086325
    Publish Date
    Nov 2018
    List Price
    $10.99

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Uprooted, longing for love and to feel somehow situated, Willa Jackson flees life as a military wife when she meets Hugh, the lighthouse keeper on McNabs Island in Halifax Harbour. The object of her fantasies, a musician, he’s the last of a dying breed in this story set during the final days of lightkeeping before automation. Romanced by this magical location—so close to the city and its lively communities, yet so remote—she involves her ten-year-old son, Alex, in her escape. Things sour when isolation and Hugh, harbourer of secrets deadlier than she can imagine, turn as brutal as the forces of nature—and of self-deception—that threaten to engulf all three. A tender yet heartbreaking story of one woman’s reckoning.

About the author

Carol Bruneau's most recent title from Cormorant Books is Glass Voices. She is also the author of Berth. Her novel Purple For Sky (Cormorant, 2000) won the City of Dartmouth Fiction Prize and the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, Depth Rapture and After the Angel Mill, both published by Cormorant Books. She has taught creative writing in the continuing education departments of Mount St.Vincent University and Nova Scotia Community College; she is now on faculty of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, where she teaches writing. Carol lives in Halifax with her husband and three sons.

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