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Ingalls wrote the truest book about marriage and loneliness I've read this year by giving her protagonist a six-foot amphibian lover, which shouldn't work but does because the surrealism is more honest than realism would have been.
In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research... Reviewers have compared Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban to King Kong, Edgar Allan Poe's stories, the films of David Lynch, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, E.T., Richard Yates's domestic realism, B-horror movies, and the fairy tales of Angela Carter-how such a short novel could contain all of these disparate elements is a testament to…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
I was entranced by the story of an orphan girl making her way through Montreal's underground metro system and her forays into the above ground world. The story told in a literary style yet fast paced and containing whimsical and fairy tale elements is nothing but delightful. The theme of connection and finding the courage to rise above resonates with this reader.
A Montreal adventure comes to life when a lonely girl at the metro station convenience store spots her mysterious doppelganger, in this playful and surprising novel by the inimitable Heather O'Neill, beautifully illustrated by Arizona O'Neill
In the tradition of the serialized novels of Charles Dickens, Heather O'Neill brings us Valentine in Montreal. Originally published in weekly instalments in the Montreal Gazette, this is the unforgettable story of Valentine, a lonely orphan working in a depanneur at a Montreal metro station, who spots her look-alike. As Valentine follows this seeming twin onto the subway and out into the city, her…
A writer is made in many ways. From an early age, I had my nose in a book and spent any free time I had going to and from the local library. ‘Here she comes,’ said the librarian a little wearily as I was insatiable. For me, reading opened the door into alternative ways of seeing and of being. During the day, I put on the school uniform and learned about maths and why tax is necessary. Back home, I plunged into every kind of adventure, from the exotic and the frightening to the quietly reassuring stories of families who stuck together. It turned me into a writer.
Immersed in a boarding school with my parents living on another continent, I searched for comfort and found it in Charlotte Brontë’s novel of a young orphan struggling to make her way in Victorian England.
Although considered by some to be shocking when it was published in 1847, it was a sensation and has never been out of print since.
"Do you think," she cries to the rich Mr Rochester, the man she loves, "because I am poor, plain and little, that I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong – I have as much soul as you – and full as much heart."
Complete with Gothic frills, brooding landscapes and high drama, leavened with intelligence and psychological acuity, Jane Eyre is a love story which contains one of the great cries for equality in literature.
Who could fail to respond? I certainly did, and I remember it every time…
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.
Perhaps one of the most well-known books in the world, Jane Eyre follows the life of its eponymous orphaned protagonist. From her early life Jane is strong-willed, passionate and kind but comes up against a lot of struggles. She lives with her aunt and uncle during early childhood, where…
Those People Behind Us is set in the summer of 2017, post-Trump election and pre-pandemic. The story takes place in the fictional city of Wellington Beach, California, a suburban coastal town increasingly divided by politics, protests, and escalating housing prices. These divisions change the lives of five neighbors--a real estate…
Hjorth does what she always does — takes the thing a family buried and makes you sit with it for 144 pages until you understand that repression isn't silence, it's a force that shapes everything it touches, decades later.
