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edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: Jan 1996
ISBN:9780921586531
publisher: New Star Books

Turning, The

by Pauline Holdstock

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In 1870, while France and Prussia are at war, an English ship is wrecked on the coast of France and a stranger enters the lives of a village family. Elisa Gagnon is married to the man bent on salvaging the wrecked Lady Morgan at any cost; her daughter Janik sees angels, but her father would rather see her married than enter the convent; Alan Bridges arrives among them with an unknown past and suspicious intentions. When a ruinous triangle develops between these three, they are forced to choose between their allegiances — emotional, spiritual, and political — and their desires.

About the Author
Pauline Holdstock is the author of seven novels, including Into the Heart of the Country, longlisted for the 2012 Giller Prize, Beyond Measure, winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the 2004 Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Canada and Caribbean Region, as well as The Hunter and the Wild Girl. She lives on Vancouver Island and in the Languedoc region of France.
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