When writer Claire Mowat introduced fourteen-year-old Andrea Baxter in The Girl From Away, she created a character with whom young readers could identify. She continued Andrea's adventures in The French Isles and Last Summer in Louisbourg. Now, for the first time, these three classic stories are brought together in one volume. Fans old and new will cherish this unique collection. Claire Mowat is the author of three highly successful books for young adults, The Girl From Away, The French Isles and Last Summer in Louisbourg. She and her husband, Farley Mowat, divide their time between Ontario and Nova Scotia.

CLAIRE MOWAT graduated from Ontario College of Art and worked as a graphic designer before she began writing. In the early 1960s, she and her husband, Farley Mowat, lived for five years in Newfoundland, in the village of Burgeo on the southwest shore. The Outport People, a bestselling memoir based on her experience living in Newfoundland, was her first book. She is also the author of The Girl From Away Trilogy for young adults. She and her husband divide their time between Port Hope, Ontario, and River Bourgeois in Cape Breton.

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