Far Creek Road
Jude Castillo
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Marilyn Stanley
, Deana Bueley
, Sandra Furlotte
, Agnes Marshall
, Margo Beredjiklian
, diana kirkwood
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Sarah Schwartz
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Stephen Pinder
, Anne Baldo
, Deb Philippon
, Claire Gear
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Patricia Johnson
, cassandra schiemann
, Linda Leitch
, Joshua Lewis
, Noelle Walsh
, Joe Mitchell
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Barry Kazimer
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Tatiana Robinson
, Marjorie Roy
, Catherine Westerberg
, Claudie Léveillé
, Susan Baues
, Jane Beeman
, Andrea Pole
, Hana Iudin
, Natasa Ilic
, Mary Ellen Havlik
, Chris Lantz
, Andrea Gillespie
, Mary Therrien
, Chantal Gingras
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Caleb Nault
, Heather Belliveau
, Kathleen Hutchison
, Tiffany C
, Christine Lion
, Paula Ritchie
, Rosanna Crupi
, Benita Hartwell
, Debbie Youngman
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Jennifer Korwin-Kuczynski
, Sonia Adams
, joy mills
, Huguette Lemieux
, Kim Fenton
, Darlene Foster
, Margaret McKay
, Deborah Kennedy
, Janice Cournoyer
, Pat Johnston
, BJ Underwood
, Denise Duvall
, Lynn Andrews
, Patricia McKeown
, Heather Sibley
, Alison Jacques
, Randi Ann Doll
, Kim Cappellina
, Sindi Nika
, Lisa Mallia
, Jessica Gilbert
, Ken Gilmour
, Kym Marsh
, Karen Nordrum
, Mary Campbell
, Heather Rose
, Melissa Poremba
, Cindy Bodini
, Lynn Bechtel
, Sara Conway
, Shawna Moodie
, Susan Jang
, Barbara Leckie
, Alicia Romac
, Ellen Clarke
, Chris Carvalho
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Robert Hykawy
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Doris Corcese
, Mary Whitfield
, Janet Miller
, Tyra Antle
, Amie Gaudet
, zelda dwyer
, Beth Dekoker
, Rhona Brinkman
, Rachel Edmonds
, Donna Gamache
, Jane Graham
, Susan Ratcliffe
, Prabh Toor
, Judith Pearson
, Pearl Saban
, Katherine Krige
, Heather Norris
, Debra Fisher
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Maureen Brownlee
, Alanna King
, Neha Faisal
, Megan Brodie
, Janet Meisner
, Kathryn Galan
, Ingrid Loepp
, Sharon Bird
, Irenee R Anderson
, Jennifer Beyak
, Lesley Cameron
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It’s 1961, and Mary Alice (Tink) Parker lives with her parents in a Vancouver suburb where many fathers are traumatized veterans of the Second World War and almost all the mothers are housewives. They believe they’ve earned secure and prosperous lives after the sacrifices they made during the war. But under the conformist veneer seethe conflicts and secrets that make the serenity of Grouse Valley precarious.
This is the story of the unravelling of a neighbourhood. It’s told by Tink, an eccentric child who is funny, observant, and impossibly nosy, who has an unnerving tendency to blurt whatever’s on her mind. Bucolic at first, the story darkens as McCarthy-era paranoia infects the adults and spills over into the lives of the children. The parents of Tink’s best friend Norman are schoolteachers with leftist beliefs. When the Cuban Missile Crisis threatens, Norman’s parents face a witch hunt while the boy becomes a target of bullies. Tink does her best to defend Norman. But as she looks for help, she stumbles on a web of secrets that triggers events beyond anyone’s control. Gripping and perceptive, the novel portrays a divided era with eerie similarities to our own.
