Patricia J. Parsons

We Came From Away: That Summer on "The Rock" (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A love letter to the island of Newfoundland, this enchanting and funny story could only have been written by a "come-from-away."

On the island of Newfoundland at the edge of North America, if you're not an islander, you're a "come-from-away." And if you were born here and left never to return, according to Nora Houlihan, who is about to turn one hundred, you're the worst kind of CFA. But she's about to have a birthday party and demands that her family return. Before the party, though, she wants them to see what they're missing by living in appalling places like Toronto and New York. So she arranges a cross-island tour for them.

Under the careful eye of their mysterious tour guide, Gordie O'Brien, Nora's two children, both in their seventies themselves, and their assorted middle-aged children are packed into a truck for a week to put aside their petty family squabbles and their prissy food fetishes, their designer handbags and their champagne tastes to experience the things that really matter.

By the time they reach St. John's to celebrate one hundred years of the tactless, obnoxious Nora's life, they have all changedjust not in the way she might have anticipated.

But every family has its secretsand Nora's family has more than its share of skeletons deeply buried in the closet. And it's time to let them see the light of day. They may scandalize her offspring, but nothing will captivate their imaginations more than the mystery and emotional charge of the place where they were knit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Moonlight Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798227315427
• Artikelnr.: 73191727

Autorenporträt

Patricia J. Parsons (aka P J Parsons) has written a dozen books, including health and business books, as well as a memoir and two historical novels in addition to her women's fiction. She has been a fashion design and sewing fanatic for most of her life, a passion she writes about online at The GG Files blog. She lives, writes and sews in Toronto.

Connect with her on Instagram @patriciajparsons

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Some other books by Patricia J. Parsons

The almost-but-not-quite-true stories

The Year I Made 12 Dresses (Book 1)

Kat's Kosmic Blues (Book 2)

The Inscrutable Life of Frannie Phillips (Book 3)

Something I'm Supposed to Do (Book 4)

Other Fiction

Plan B (lit-for-intelligent-chicks)

Confessions of a Failed Yuppie (lit-for-intelligent-chicks)

Something More Than Love (historical fiction)

Grace Note: In Hildegard's Shadow (historical fiction)