The Lavender Child - Richards, Harriet
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Winner: Best First Book, 1998 Saskatchewan Book Awards A year in the lives, dreams, and awakenings of the Protheroe family . . . Like most families, the Protheroes live together but dream in solitude: daydreams, night dreams, and the reveries of memory. Although much love connects them, they are alone within themselves, as are we all, each orbiting a unique inner sun coalescing from the raw material of birth and circumstance. The much-anticipated arrival of a new baby, affectionally called the Bump, affects them all in both their dreams and waking life, but their expectations are upended when…mehr

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Winner: Best First Book, 1998 Saskatchewan Book Awards A year in the lives, dreams, and awakenings of the Protheroe family . . . Like most families, the Protheroes live together but dream in solitude: daydreams, night dreams, and the reveries of memory. Although much love connects them, they are alone within themselves, as are we all, each orbiting a unique inner sun coalescing from the raw material of birth and circumstance. The much-anticipated arrival of a new baby, affectionally called the Bump, affects them all in both their dreams and waking life, but their expectations are upended when Dion is born brain-damaged. Despite that twist of fate, the new addition soon becomes a powerful influence on his parents, his five sisters, and his grandparents. As the year unfolds, the reader travels through the minds of three generations: a group of wonderfully individual people who define family in a wholly original way. "The Lavender Child reminds me of the best of Anne Tyler and Barbara Kingsolver, confident, witty, tender and smart . . . An auspicious debut, sassy, clear-eyed and beautifully told." - Sandra Birdsell
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Harriet Richards's creative reality was as a visual artist until an obstinate painting, based on a recurrent dream, insisted on becoming a short story. She has since published three books of fiction. The Lavender Childwas nominated for the Fiction Award and won the First Book Award at the Saskatchewan Book Awards in 1998. Waiting for the Piano Tuner to Die (coming out in a new edition from Shadowpaw Press Reprise in 2025) was nominated for Book of the Year at the 2003 Saskatchewan Book Awards, and in 2003, The Pious Robber was nominated for Book of the Year and won the Fiction Award. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals in Canada and Wales, and her paintings have appeared on book covers in both countries. She has mentored emerging writers through the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild and has edited numerous books of fiction and literary essays for writers across Canada.