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Fayne (Paperback)
Ann-Marie MacDonald
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R537
R449
Discovery Miles 4 490
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Fayne, a vast moated castle, lies to the misty southern border of
Scotland, ruled by the Lord Henry Bell, Seventeenth Baron of the DC
de Fayne, Peer of Her Majesty's Realm of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland. The mysterious Lord Bell keeps to his
rooms by day, appearing briefly at night to dote over his beloved
and peculiarly gifted child. But even with all her gifts -
intelligence, wit and strength of character - can Charlotte
overcome the violently strict boundaries of contemporary society
and establish her own place in the world?
Ann-Marie MacDonald's Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) has
delighted audiences and won the Governor General's Award for Drama
and the Chalmers Award for Outstanding Play.
In this exuberant comedy, MacDonald asks, What if Desdemona and
Juliet were allowed to live? Constance Ledbelly, a tweedy academic,
has ghostwritten the papers of her mentor for years, when suddenly
he announces he's marrying a rival. Escaping into her research,
Constance decodes the Gustav Manuscript, which turns out to include
an unknown pair of comedies that she believes were the source for
Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Transported into the
world of her theory, she comes face-to-face with Desdemona and
Juliet, and discovers that, far from shrinking violets, they were
hellions full of surprises. What follows is a riotous retelling of
theatrical legend that brings Constance out of her gloom and
straight into a new and confident self.
Following the curves of the twentieth century, FALL ON YOUR KNEES takes us from haunted Cape Breton island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene in New York City, and immerses us in the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The children of a driven and ambitious father, the sisters - Kathleen, the oldest, a beautiful talent intent on a career as an opera diva;Frances, the drunken rogue and child prostitute;Lily, the pseudo-saint cripple;and Mercedes, the fervent Catholic and protector of the flock - are swept along by the tumult of events and of their own desires. This is a story of family relationships, racial strife, miracles, attempted murder, birth and eath, and an extraordinary love affair.
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Adult Onset (Paperback)
Ann-Marie MacDonald
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R315
R258
Discovery Miles 2 580
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'Ann-Marie MacDonald captures the dark hilarity of parenthood like
nobody else. I gulped down Adult Onset in a single day.' EMMA
DONOGHUE, author of ROOM 'A complex, troubling novel that cuts with
surgical precision into the sinew and muscle of family life.' -
SARAH WATERS Mary Rose MacKinnon has agreed to be a stay-at-home
mother while her partner's career takes centre stage. As she
balances childcare with the relentless needs of her own ageing
parents, into the hilarities of full-on domesticity seeps a feeling
of dread. Do others notice the dents in the expensive refrigerator?
How did those scissors wind up in her toddler's hands? When a
flare-up of a forgotten childhood illness compels her to rethink
her own upbringing, Mary Rose's world threatens to unravel and the
spectre of violence raises its head. With biting humour and
unerring emotional accuracy, Adult Onset explores the pleasures and
pressures of family bonds, so powerful and yet so easily twisted
and broken.
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