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This is one of the books in Margaret Laurence’s Manawaka series. It’s a series of short stories, but since the main character remains the same, it is just as satisfying as a novel. In the first story we are introduced to 10-year-old Vanessa MacLeod and at the Brick House, the home of her maternal grandparents, we meet her extended family. The characters seem entirely real: Vanessa, a lonely girl and budding writer; mother Beth who is expecting a second child; father Ewan, a World War I veteran a
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NCL.2006-10-01
A Canadian treasure
This read of Margaret's sentimental masterpiece must be my fifth or sixth pass. I can't get enough of this woman's sensibilities surrounding life in a small town in Canada at mid-20th Century. I lived this life. Margatet has nails it authentic and loving. ...more
This read of Margaret's sentimental masterpiece must be my fifth or sixth pass. I can't get enough of this woman's sensibilities surrounding life in a small town in Canada at mid-20th Century. I lived this life. Margatet has nails it authentic and loving. ...more
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