Summary
In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day.
Connie’s niece, Anne, tells the story. Impelled by curiosity about her dynamic, adventurous aunt and her more conventional mother, she revisits Connie’s past and her mother’s broken childhood. In th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857386434 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857386433 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Hay |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
‘A highly accomplished and resourceful writer’ Paul Binding, Spectator.
‘The villain, Principal Parley Burns, who moves through the school ‘like mustard gas in subtle form’, is one of the most memorable villains I’ve ever encountered’ Laura Wilson, Guardian. * Guardian *‘Unforgettable characters, in particular the brave, resolute Connie Flood’ Jessica Mann, Literary Review. * Literary Review *‘A highly accomplished and resourceful writer’ Paul Binding, Spectator. * Spectator *
About The Author
Elizabeth Hay
ELIZABETH HAY is the author of the #1 bestseller Late Nights on Air (2008), which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her other works include Alone in the Classroom (2012) and His Whole Life (2015). In 2002, she received the prestigious Marian Engel Award, and for All Things Consoled she was the winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Award for Non-fiction. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.
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