Great Village



by Mary Rose Donnelly

ISBN 9781770860025 | 5.25" x 8" | TPB w/ French Flaps | $21
Categories:Fiction - Literary

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Finalist for the 2012 Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Atlantic Book Awards)

Synopsis

Retired schoolteacher Flossy O’Reilly feels the whisper of death at her back. It is in her home in Great Village, Nova Scotia where she is surrounded by piles of books. It is beside her as she gazes out over the shore with her lifelong friend Mealie. It walks with her into the village, while details of the distant past return to her with startling clarity. With worsening chest pains, exacerbated by the arrival of an unwelcome teenager, she fully expects her life is ebbing away — but before it does, she must finally confront the deceptions and shame of the long-hidden past.
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