The Lavender Child - Softcover

Richards, Harriet

 
9781998273201: The Lavender Child
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1998273202 ISBN 13: 9781998273201
Verlag: Shadowpaw Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Winner, Best First Book, Saskatchewan Book Awards (1998)

A year in the lives, dreams, and awakenings of the Protheroe family . . .

The much-anticipated arrival of a new baby, affectionally called the Bump, affects them all in both their dreams and waking life, but their expectations are upended when Dion is born brain-damaged. Despite that twist of fate, the new addition soon becomes a powerful influence on his parents, his five sisters, and his grandparents.

As the year unfolds, the reader travels through the minds of three generations: a group of wonderfully individual people who define family in a wholly original way.

Praise for The Lavender Child

“The Lavender Child reminds me of the best of Anne Tyler and Barbara Kingsolver, confident, witty, tender and smart . . . An auspicious debut, sassy, clear-eyed and beautifully told.”—Sandra Birdsell

“Three generations are connected in ways deeper than they understand . . . The Lavender Child has a voice that is vibrant, clever and tender.”—Saskatchewan Book Awards judges

“Saskatchewan writer Harriet Richards sails smoothly along many streams of consciousness, taking you inside her characters’ minds. We decode the intricacies of each personality—their fears, desires, weaknesses, regrets . . . The Lavender Child is tender, confident and clever. As Richards’s first novel, it is a triumph.”—Saskatoon Star Phoenix

“Harriet Richards writes with conviction and wit, and with a pleasingly deft sense of timing.”—Planet - the Welsh Internationalist

“. . . The Lavender Child is written with the carefully measured artistry of Carol Shields.”—Quill and Quire

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Harriet Richards's creative reality was as a visual artist until an obstinate painting, based on a recurrent dream, insisted on becoming a short story. She has since published three books of fiction. The Lavender Childwas nominated for the Fiction Award and won the First Book Award at the Saskatchewan Book Awards in 1998. Waiting for the Piano Tuner to Die (coming out in a new edition from Shadowpaw Press Reprise in 2025) was nominated for Book of the Year at the 2003 Saskatchewan Book Awards, and in 2003, The Pious Robber was nominated for Book of the Year and won the Fiction Award. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals in Canada and Wales, and her paintings have appeared on book covers in both countries. She has mentored emerging writers through the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild and has edited numerous books of fiction and literary essays for writers across Canada.

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Verlag
Shadowpaw Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1998273202
ISBN 13 
9781998273201
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
218
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