Maple Sugar Pie
- Publisher
- Acorn Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2017
- Category
- Family Life
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781927502877
- Publish Date
- Apr 2017
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781927502884
- Publish Date
- Jul 2017
- List Price
- $10.99
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Description
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Maple Sugar Pie is the story of Hazel Whitford and her family's past, told through old black and white photographs, we see the events that caused deep fractures in her family and her estrangement from her husband and all but one of her living children.
We also see the story through the eyes of Hazel's grandson Michael's wife Jennifer, who live with the elderly Hazel for five years. After Hazel's death Jen and Mike's future on the farm, and the small business Jen has started on the farm could be in jeopardy. Jen plans a reunion for the Canada Day long weekend hoping to reunite the family and to gain title to the farm. But will the estranged family want to return and will they be able to come to terms with the pain the events of the past have caused?
About the author
Sue White was born in New Brunswick and moved from one New Brunswick city to another. As a teenager her family moved to the Kingston Peninsula and she only left long enough to earn her BA and BEd at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. Settling on the peninsula, she and her husband raised four children and ran a small farm while she taught elementary school. Since retiring she is grateful to now have the time to work on her writing and the freedom to regularly visit her new granddaughter in Alberta. Her previous books include Ten Thousand Truths and The Year Mrs. Montague Cried, which won the Ann Connor Brimer Award. Visit her website at author-susan-white.blogspot.ca.
