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Hunting Down Home

by (author) Jean McNeil

Publisher
McArthur & Company
Initial publish date
Sep 2010
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552788196
    Publish Date
    Sep 2010
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

Hunting Down Home is the compelling story of an unusual family and their last year together. Morag lives with her grandparents on a remote farm in Nova Scotia. She sees her mother only in slides sent from Africa and illuminated at night on the white refrigerator door. With lyrical intensity, Jean McNeil captures Morag's dawning perception of the violent bonds that hold her grandparents together, making readers feel the tension when Morag must inevitably choose between them.

About the author

Jean McNeil, a native of Nova Scotia, has lived in London since 1991. She spent the austral summer of 2005-2006 in Antarctica as the British Antarctic Survey/Arts Council of England International Fellow to Antarctica, and has since been writer-in-residence in the Falkland Islands, Svalbard and on a scientific expedition to Greenland.

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Editorial Reviews

"[McNeil] has a sharp, unarguable talent."

The New York Times Book Review

"an urgent, uncompromising tale"

Quill & Quire

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