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Berth
by Carol Bruneau
Novel
ISBN: 1-896951-85-6
5.125" x 7.625"
Hardcover
$29.95
376 pages
BISAC Codes
FIC019000
Fiction/Literary
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Berth
by Carol Bruneau
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Berth is the story of thirty-something Willa's
flight from a military marriage to the romance of life with Hugh,
a lightkeeper on an island in Halifax Harbour. Set in 1987, the
story begins with Willa's move to the nearby base, where her husband
Charlie works aboard the Sea King helicopters. Charmed by Hugh's
lifestyle,Willa moves in with him, taking her ten-year-old son,
Alex. Hugh's job is endangered by the encroaching automation of
the lighthouses, but he clings to his way of life — despite
suspicions that the house in which he lives and which contains the
light is contaminated by the mercury in the light, an occupational
hazard. From the outset, the affair is complicated by Willa's motherhood,
and the island, once a remote paradise, soon reveals itself as the
military's dumping grounds. The reality of life there sets in, posing
a threat not just to romance, but to Willa's sanity. The novel explores
the human propensity to seek greener pastures, and, by turn, to
suffer the dangers of the status quo. It's about idealism —
the purity of love and nature, and their defilement, and the survival
of both, however diminished, in a fallen world.
Praise for Purple For Sky
"Bruneau ... has a saucy, punchy, even ebullient writing style,
and is completely at ease in the wonderful Arcadian milieu of the
story."
— National Post
"It is as meticulously crafted and multi-textured as the quilt
that stands as the book's central metaphor."
— The Globe and Mail
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