The Holding Paperback - 2005
by Merilyn Simonds
Alyson Thomson left the city for a simpler life on an abandoned farm. In the ruins of a log cabin, she finds the writings of a young woman who lived more than a hundred years before in this intimate journey of discovery.
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Alyson Thomson has left the city for an abandoned farm in the Madawaska hills of Ontario, with Walker, a potter. There, they live a life of artistic and emotional independence, until eventually the isolation brings to the fore tensions and conflicts within the relationship. After a tragedy enters Alyson's life, she uncovers, in the ruins of a decrepit log cabin, the hidden writings of a young woman who lived on their land more than a hundred years before. As Alyson reads the harrowing tale of Margaret MacBayne, who left behind hardship in a Scottish seacoast town for the Canadian bush in 1859 with the hope of building a new life, she finds Margaret's story comes to parallel her own in disturbing and unpredictable ways. A brilliant illumination of the lives of two women who occupy the same place a century apart, "The Holding reveals the things we keep most guarded, whose truths often lie in unexpected places.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title The Holding
- Author Merilyn Simonds
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 322
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
- Date 2005-09-01
- ISBN 9780393344837 / 0393344835
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.72 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.83 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005018472
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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