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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and feminist revisioning of Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes us from a dusty office in Canada's Queen's University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies, and turns them upside-down. Constance Ledbelly is the beleaguered "spinster" academic, and unlikely heroine who embarks on a quest for Shakespearean origins and, ul...

A classic quest for identity set in beautiful and atmospheric 19th century Scotland

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 .Mary Rose McKinnon has two children with her partner Hilary and a fractured relationship with her mother Dolly, she also has issues with anger management and lives in fear of hurting the children and these feelings seem somehow rooted in a part of her childhood she has trouble remembering. Is...

The sun came out after the war and our world went Technicolor. Everyone had the same idea. Let's get married. Let's have kids. Let's be the ones who do it right." The Way the Crow Flies, the second novel by bestselling, award-winning author Ann-Marie MacDonald, " is set on the Royal Canadian Air Force station of Centralia during the early sixties. It is a time of optimism -- infused with the excitement of the space race but overshadowed by the...

In Belle Moral: A Natural History, we are steeped in a world on the cusp between magic and art, and science and madness. Set in 1899 just outside Edinburgh, the play unfolds in the venerable estate known as Belle Moral, home to Pearl MacIsaac, an avid amateur paleontologist and proud "new woman", her maiden Aunt Flora, a sweetly maternal figure who nonetheless keeps an iron-grip on her set of keys, and a staff of quirky household retainers who...

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Non c'è nessun aspetto della vita di Mary Rose MacKinnon che non sia frutto di una scelta ben precisa. Non ha niente di cui lamentarsi o di cui essere grata. Ha fatto outing quando l'omosessualità era ancora classificata come una malattia mentale dall'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità, ha contribuito a cambiare il mondo e tutto s'è aggiustato al punto che, dopo una vita da bohémien e diversi romanzi di successo, adesso è legalmente sposata ...

In The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald takes us back to the early 1960's, a time of optimism infused with the excitement of the space race and overshadowed by the menace of the Cold War--a world filtered through the imagination of Madeleine McCarthy, a spirited nine-year-old. Unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in his own web of secrets, she at first welcomes her family's posting to a sleepy air force base in southern Ontario. ...

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From the acclaimed author of "Fall on Your Knees"--a "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah pick--comes a mesmerizing look "at childhood, marriage, families, the 1960s, the Cold War, and the fear and isolation that are part of the human condition" (Patrick Anderson, "Washington Post Book World").

A bestseller in Canada, this riveting family saga takes readers from Cape Breton Island to the battlefields of World War I to New York City's jazz scene--and into the lives, and guilty secrets, of four remarkable sisters.

As the tension in the McCarthy's household builds, Jack must decide where his loyalties lie, and Madeleine learns about the ambiguity of human morality -- a lesson she will only begin to understand when she carries her quest for the truth, and the killer, into adulthood twenty years later. THE WAY THE CROW FLIES is a novel that is as compelling as it is rich. With her unerring eye for the whimsical, the absurd and the quintessentially human, A...

Una passione breve e bruciante dalle immani conseguenze. Le vicende di un'intera famiglia, tra incesti e santità, delitti e prostituzione, atrocità e meraviglie, su un fondo che sembra avere la sostanza terribile e raggiante dei sogni.

From the internationally best-selling author of Fall on Your Knees comes a story about the joy and agony of motherhood, the dark undercurrents that break and hold families together, and the transformative power of forgiveness.

Het leek zo mooi: Mary Rose MacKinnon heeft met haar young adult-boeken genoeg verdiend om een poos thuis bij haar kinderen te blijven. Haar partner Hilary, theaterregisseur, heeft het stikdruk. Met Mary Rose thuis aan het roer blijft hun huishouden mooi beredderd en hun gezin in balans. Ze tuiniert, kookt en poetst dat het een aard heeft, maar van een idylle is geen sprake. De muren komen op haar af. Terwijl haar frustratie langzaam tot een ...

De vroege jaren zestig. De ruimtevaartwedloop zorgt voor veel opwinding en optimisme, maar de dreiging van de Koude Oorlog is permanent voelbaar. Het gezin McCarthy heeft zich net gevestigd op een rustige luchtmachtbasis in Ontario. De achtjarige Madeleine weet niet dat haar vader Jack algauw verstrikt raakt in een web van geheimen. Zijzelf durft niet te praten over wat er in het nablijfklasje gebeurt. Wanneer een schoolvriendinnetje van Made...

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Non c'è nessun aspetto della vita di Mary Rose Mac-Kinnon che non sia frutto di una scelta ben precisa. Non ha niente di cui lamentarsi o di cui essere grata. Ha fatto outing quando l'omosessualità era ancora classificata come una malattia mentale dall'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità, ha contribuito a cambiare il mondo e tutto s'è aggiustato al punto che, dopo una vita da bohémien e diversi romanzi di successo, adesso può starsene al tavo...

È il 1962 quando i McCarthy fanno ritorno in Canada dopo un decennio trascorso nelle basi alleate di Francia e Germania. Sono irresistibili, i McCarthy: felici, belli, stirpe del nuovo mondo. E altrettanto perfetto appare il luogo in cui vengono trasferiti, una base nell'Ontario che porta il nome di Centralia. A vivere con particolare emozione questo trasferimento è Madeleine, la figlia di otto anni, una bambina intelligente e vivace che vede ...

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of two beloved classics, Fall On Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies, Adult Onset is a powerful drama that makes vividly real the pressures of life and love, and the undercurrents that run deep through even the most devoted families.