Berth
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2018
- Category
- NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Contemporary Women, Family Life
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781896951850
- Publish Date
- Jul 2005
- List Price
- $29.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771086165
- Publish Date
- Oct 2018
- List Price
- $22.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771086325
- Publish Date
- Nov 2018
- List Price
- $10.99
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Description
Uprooted, longing for love and to feel somehow situated, Willa Jackson flees life as a military wife when she meets Hugh, the lighthouse keeper on McNabs Island in Halifax Harbour. The object of her fantasies, a musician, he’s the last of a dying breed in this story set during the final days of lightkeeping before automation. Romanced by this magical location—so close to the city and its lively communities, yet so remote—she involves her ten-year-old son, Alex, in her escape. Things sour when isolation and Hugh, harbourer of secrets deadlier than she can imagine, turn as brutal as the forces of nature—and of self-deception—that threaten to engulf all three. A tender yet heartbreaking story of one woman’s reckoning.
About the author
Carol Bruneau's most recent title from Cormorant Books is Glass Voices. She is also the author of Berth. Her novel Purple For Sky (Cormorant, 2000) won the City of Dartmouth Fiction Prize and the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, Depth Rapture and After the Angel Mill, both published by Cormorant Books. She has taught creative writing in the continuing education departments of Mount St.Vincent University and Nova Scotia Community College; she is now on faculty of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, where she teaches writing. Carol lives in Halifax with her husband and three sons.
Other titles by
Threshold
Stories
No Ordinary Magic
The Art of Laurie Swim
Brighten the Corner Where You Are
A Novel Inspired by the Life of Maud Lewis
A Circle on the Surface
Glass Voices
10th anniversary edition
Purple for Sky
These Good Hands
A Bird on Every Tree
Running the Whale's Back
Stories of Faith and Doubt from Atlantic Canada
