Queen's Court
- Publisher
- Cormorant Books
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2007
- Category
- Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896332222
- Publish Date
- Mar 2007
- List Price
- $22.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Reading age: 16 to 18
Description
Louise Bingham, recently widowed in her mid-sixties, decides to “play the tape backwards” and move from Victoria to Montreal, returning to the city of her birth and youth. Newly installed in a downtown co-op, she has to fend off a well-meaning but officious cousin, an overbearing neighbour, and a former lover while making discoveries about her son by a former marriage. In coping, she discovers that Montreal is not the Emerald City.
Queen’s Court is vintage Edward O. Phillips, a good companion on a cold night or a sunny day at the cottage.
About the author
Edward O. Phillips is the author of many short stories and ten previous novels, of which A Voyage on Sunday is the most recent. Best known for his Sunday mysteries, Phillips also writes the occasional chocolate box novel, which takes the form of a comedy of manners. He has won the Arthur Ellis Award (for Buried on Sunday and Sunday's Child) and is a natural, one day, to receive the Leacock medallion for humour. Edward lives in Montreal, where he was born and where he grew up.
Editorial Reviews
“Wonderfully witty and captivatingly clever writing … Time and time again I found myself breaking into a grin, nodding at the cleverness of a turn of phrase or passage, at the insight into human nature … Queen’s Court is funny … the kind of book you can’t wait to share.”
The Whig-Standard
"Phillips offers diversions, good humour, some entertaining scenes, a few pungent apercus and a sideways glance at the human condition."
The Globe and Mail