Told through the eyes of an older Kay, and set during the turbulent and racially charged times of the Second World War, Flying Time is a triumphant story of love and adventure, the impetuosity of youth and the regrets of age.
Pilgrimage
by Diana Davidson
Pilgrimage opens in the deep winter of 1891 on the Métis settlement of Lac St. Anne. Known as Manito Sakahigan in Cree, “Spirit Lake” has been renamed for the patron saint of childbirth. It is here that people journey in search of tradition, redemption, and miracles.
On this harsh and beautiful land, four interconnected people try to make a life in the colonial Northwest: Mahkesîs Cardinal, a young Métis girl pregnant by the Hudson Bay Company manager; Moira Murphy, an Irish Catholic house girl working for the Barretts; Georgina Barrett, the Anglo-Irish wife of the hbc manager who wishes for a child; and Gabriel Cardinal, Mahkesîs’ brother, who works on the Athabasca river and falls in love with Moira. Intertwined by family, desire, secrets, and violence, the characters live one tumultuous year on the Lac St. Anne settlement—a year that ends with a woman’s body abandoned in a well.
Set in a brilliant northern landscape, Pilgrimage is a moving debut novel about journeys, and women and men trying to survive the violent intimacy of a small place where two cultures intersect.
Copyright © 2014 Margaret Thompson
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LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION
Thompson, Margaret, 1940 November 5–, author
The cuckoo’s child / Margaret Thompson.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-927366-30-1 (html).--ISBN 978-1-927366-31-8 (pdf)
I. Title.
PS8589.H5228C83 2014 C813'.54 C2013-906018-9
Editor: Lea Fowler
Proofreader: Heather Sangster, Strong Finish
Cover images: Antique bird illustration: nicoolay, istockphoto.com
Flower texture: zorazhuang, istockphoto.com
Author photo: Alan Thompson
Brindle & Glass is pleased to acknowledge the financial support for its publishing program from the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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