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Old Stones: The Biography of a Family

By A. S. Penne

Book information

Publisher
TouchWood Editions
Year
2011
ISBN
9781926971810, 9780920663851
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
317 kB (324454 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-03-15 03:33:20
Biography & Autobiography; Nonfiction; BIO007000

Description

At the end of the Second World War nearly 50,000 women emigrated to Canada from Britain and the continent, scarred from the bomb-rutted fields of Europe. For them that Atlantic crossing marked the beginning of a great adventure: a new country, a new life and a new husband. For many children of these unions came a dual heritage, a cultural divide that made "home" a difficult place to define. In Old Stones, the gap between A. S. Penne's privileged English and provincial Canadian backgrounds is made achingly clear in family stories from both continents. In the end, the author does indeed find home — where she least expects it. An unsentimental look at a war-time union, Old Stones is an inquiry into a woman's two very different selves, as well as a candid examination of a cultural divide.

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