Beyond the Blue (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
In a Scottish mill town purged of men by war, four unforgettable women navigate a treacherous time, guided only by the bonds of family and their bold dreams of escape.
In 1918, rainy Dundee is nearly emptied of men. The Great War has left the town's...
In 1918, rainy Dundee is nearly emptied of men. The Great War has left the town's...
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In a Scottish mill town purged of men by war, four unforgettable women navigate a treacherous time, guided only by the bonds of family and their bold dreams of escape.
In 1918, rainy Dundee is nearly emptied of men. The Great War has left the town's women both newfound freedom and servitude. They toil in the deadly jute mills, taking in the children of perished family members and praying their own bodies - and spirits - do not fail them too.
A grateful widow of the war, Morag shelters her daughters as best she can: beautiful Caro schemes to escape the working class with well-calculated seduction, while Wallis works in the mill alongside her mother, slowly fortifying both spirit and pocketbook for a more radical departure. Morag's orphaned niece, Imogen, seeks to understand her fragile mother's death, and the return of the father who abandoned them.
Infused with the longing, courage and passion of its indelible cast of characters, and steeped in the faith and terrors of its time - from the suffragettes and the Easter Uprising to the influenza pandemic and the Tay Bridge disaster - Beyond the Blue is a lyrical, reflective novel about finding purpose and freedom in a place without hope.
In 1918, rainy Dundee is nearly emptied of men. The Great War has left the town's women both newfound freedom and servitude. They toil in the deadly jute mills, taking in the children of perished family members and praying their own bodies - and spirits - do not fail them too.
A grateful widow of the war, Morag shelters her daughters as best she can: beautiful Caro schemes to escape the working class with well-calculated seduction, while Wallis works in the mill alongside her mother, slowly fortifying both spirit and pocketbook for a more radical departure. Morag's orphaned niece, Imogen, seeks to understand her fragile mother's death, and the return of the father who abandoned them.
Infused with the longing, courage and passion of its indelible cast of characters, and steeped in the faith and terrors of its time - from the suffragettes and the Easter Uprising to the influenza pandemic and the Tay Bridge disaster - Beyond the Blue is a lyrical, reflective novel about finding purpose and freedom in a place without hope.
Autoren-Porträt von Andrea MacPherson
Andrea MacPherson's fiction and poetry have been widely published in Canadian and international magazines. She teaches creative writing at select BC colleges and universities, and her first novel, When She Was Electric, was published in 2003. Her grandmother grew up in Dundee across the street from the Bowbridge Works jute mill, where her own mother worked. MacPherson lives in Cloverdale, British Columbia.
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- Autor: Andrea MacPherson
- 2010, 352 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Random House of Canada
- ISBN-10: 0307369943
- ISBN-13: 9780307369949
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.07.2010
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