ADULT ONSET - MACDONALD ANN-MARIE - Coronet

The optimism of the early sixties, infused with the excitement of the space race and the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of high-spirited, eight-year-old Madeleine, who welcomes her family's posting to a quiet Air Force base near the Canadian border. Secure in the love of her beautiful mother, she is unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in a web of secrets. When a very local murder intersects with global forces, Jack must decide where his loyalties lie, and Madeleine will be forced to learn a lesson about the ambiguity ofhuman morality -- one she will only begin to understand when she carries herquest for the truth, and the killer, into adulthood twenty years later.

Rich coming-of-age novel set on a Canadian Air force base at the outset of the Cold War. From the author of the international bestseller, }Fall On Your Knees{.

È il 1962 quando i McCarthy fanno ritorno nella loro terra, il Canada, dopo un decennio trascorso nelle basi alleate di Francia e Germania, dove Jack ha partecipato all’opera di ricostruzione postbellica come ufficiale della Royal Canadian Air Force. Il luogo in cui vengono trasferiti, una base nell’Ontario che porta il nome di Centralia. A vivere con particolare emozione questo trasferimento è Madeleine, la figlia di otto anni, una bambina intelligente e vivace che, confortata dall’amore della mamma e inconsapevole del fatto che suo padre è coinvolto in una delicata operazione d’intelligence, vede l’arrivo in quella base come l’inizio di una fantastica avventura. Sono anni entusiasmanti, che trovano un simbolo nella corsa alla conquista dello spazio appena iniziata. Ma sono anche gli anni della Guerra fredda, con la crisi della Baia dei Porci e la minaccia nucleare che investe all’improvviso l’Occidente. Centralia non ne è immune, anche se tutto ci viene filtrato dalla fertile immaginazione di Madeleine mentre ci introduce nel suo mondo. Un mondo in cui è stato ugualmente deposto un seme distruttivo, che sboccia una prima volta quando una sua compagna viene ritrovata uccisa, forse vittima di un pedofilo, e che nel tempo produrrà una serie inquietante di frutti, in una catena inarrestabile di menzogne e ambiguità.

In her highly anticipated new novel, Ann-Marie MacDonald takes us back to a postwar world. For Madeleine McCarthy, high-spirited and eight years old, her family's posting to a quiet air force base near the Canadian-American border is at first welcome, secure as she is in the love of her family and unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in his own web of secrets. The early sixties, a time of optimism infused with the excitement of the space race and overshadowed by the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of a child as Madeleine draws us into her world.

But the base is host to some intriguing inhabitants, including the unconventional Froehlich family, and the odd Mr. March, whose power over the children is a secret burden that they carry. Then tragedy strikes, and a very local murder intersects with global forces, binding the participants for life. As the tension in the McCarthys' household builds, Jack must decide where his loyalties lie, and Madeleine learns about the ambiguity of human morality -- a lesson that will become clear only when the quest for the truth, and the killer, is renewed twenty years later.

The Way the Crow Flies is a novel that is as compelling as it is rich. With her unerring eye for the whimsical, the absurd, and the quintessentially human, Ann-Marie MacDonald stunningly evokes the pain, confusion, and humor of childhood in a perilous adult world. At once a loving portrayal and indictment of an era, The Way the Crow Flies is a work of great heart and soaring intelligence.

Una passione breve e bruciante dalle immani conseguenze. Le vicende di un'intera famiglia, tra incesti e santità, delitti e prostituzione, atrocità e meraviglie, su un fondo che sembra avere la sostanza terribile e raggiante dei sogni.

The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives -- even destroy them.

Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Theirs is a world filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love.

Compellingly written, by turns menacingly dark and hilariously funny, this is an epic tale of five generations of sin, guilt, and redemption.