The Lavender Child
- Publisher
- Thistledown Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1997
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781895449723
- Publish Date
- Oct 1997
- List Price
- $10.95
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Description
Winner of the 1998 Saskatchewan Book Award for Best First Book
A year in the lives, dreams and awakenings of the Protheroe family. Baby Dion is brain-damaged at birth, yet he is a sweet and powerful influence on his parents, his five sisters and his grandparents. Under his spell, the reader travels through the minds of three generations: a group of wonderfully individual people who nevertheless define family in a wholly original and exciting way.
About the author
Harriet Richards has published two books of fiction: The Lavender Child was nominated for the Fiction Award and won First Book Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards 1998; Waiting for the Piano Tuner To Die was nominated for the Saskatchewan Book Award Book of the Year in 2003. Her fiction has been featured on CBC Radio, and published in literary journals in Canada and Wales. She lives in Saskatoon.
