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Everything seems broken in Suzanna Riccis life. Only 42, her marriage to Len has disintegrated. Her relationship to their teenage boys, Robin and Logan, is in need of repair. Now her mother, that martial soul, wants her to restore the family home in Acqua Sacra, damaged by earthquake. And she doesnt care how many trips from Montreal to their vivid Italian patria of Abruzzo her daughter has to make. At least when Len, a dodgy accountant, encour...

This book chronicles the lives of ordinary English-speaking Quebeckers who 'did not go the other way' down the 401, a neglected Canadian minority that saw its treasured world sacrificed by statist deceit and disowned with 'stricken, evasive looks' even by its own kind. With a vivid, contrarian insight, Keith Henderson shows us that not all change is even-handed or mending, and that when it embodies 'refinemen' and 'necessary humanity', the Pas...

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These letters were never intended for publication. But when the pictures were brought back from France it was suggested that they should be reproduced, and a book evolved. Then a certain person (who shall be nameless) conceived the dastardly idea of exposing private correspondence to the public eye. He proved wilful in the matter, and this book came into the world." This book is part of the World War One Centenary series, creating, collating ...

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(Alan) Keith Henderson (1883-1982) was the author of Letters to Helen (1917), Palm Groves and Humming Birds (1924), Prehistoric Man (1927) and Pastels (1952). "Well, here we are in the slowest train that ever limped, and I've been to sleep for seven hours. The first good sleep since leaving England. And now, as we've got twenty-eight hours to go still, there's time to write a letter. The last three days' postcards have been scrappy and unintel...