This contains spoilers. Read at your own risk. Fall On Your Knees is massive. Ann-Marie MacDonald successfully weaves a multi-generational story of the Piper family on Cape Breton Island wrapped in secrets, love & loss, family values/ the value of family, sins, compassion and redemption. As it sh...
[Warning: this is a long review, but this complex book merits it.]This is a long, thoughtful, and multi-layered novel. It was recommended to me as a good depiction of life growing up on Canadian military bases, as I did. And it is. It centres around 8-year-old Madeleine McCarthy, who's on her f...
This one is actually a play, which I had no idea when I picked it up at the library for the fact that it was a slim little slip of a book that I could carry with me and read. And I did, all in one day. It was fabulous. I loved the forthright female protagonist and the combination of spooky and sc...