Liberty Street - Softcover

Warren, Dianne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554685613 ISBN 13: 9781554685615

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2016

Synopsis

From the Governor General’s Award¬–winning author of Cool Water, “a story of compassion, redemption and of coming to terms with one’s past told with intelligence, humour and wit” (Winnipeg Free Press).

When sharp-edged Frances Moon and her long-time partner encounter a funeral procession that brings traffic to a halt, she finds herself blurting out the barest thread of a story that she never intended to share. The reverberations drive her back to the past and her mother’s old rental property, the lone house in a failed subdivision called Liberty Street.

There, memories are ghosts: Frances’s mother on her way to Nashville to become a country singer; her father determined to run his farm despite his failing eyesight; the town’s bad apple, Dooley Sullivan; a string of renters including the December bride, Esme Bigalow, and a man who met a tragic end, Silas Chance.

When a domestic mishap and a torrential hailstorm send Frances to the questionable safety of an eccentric neighbour’s kitchen, she learns just how unreliable memory is, and that she was not the only one whose life after Elliot, Saskatchewan, was determined by half-truths and bad decisions.

With depth, insight and the subtle humour for which she is known, Dianne Warren gives us an engrossing and touching novel about disappointment, anger and the redemptive power of kindness.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Finalist for the High Plains Book Award, Best Woman Writer

Finalist for the Saskatchewan Book Awards Fiction Award

Finalist for the City of Regina Book Award

A Winnipeg Free Press Favourite Read of the year

When sharp-edged Frances Moon and her long-time partner encounter a funeral procession that brings traffic to a halt, she finds herself blurting out the barest thread of a story that she never intended to share. The reverberations drive her back to the past and her mother’s old rental property, the lone house in a failed subdivision called Liberty Street.

There, memories are ghosts: Frances’s mother on her way to Nashville to become a country singer; her father determined to run his farm despite his failing eyesight; the town’s bad apple, Dooley Sullivan; a string of renters including the December bride, Esme Bigalow, and a man who met a tragic end, Silas Chance.

When a domestic mishap and a torrential hailstorm send Frances to the questionable safety of an eccentric neighbour’s kitchen, she learns just how unreliable memory is, and that she was not the only one whose life after Elliot, Saskatchewan, was determined by half-truths and bad decisions.

With depth, insight, and the subtle humour for which she is known, Dianne Warren gives us an engrossing and touching novel about disappointment, anger, and the redemptive power of kindness.

About the Author

DIANNE WARREN is the author of the Governor General’s Award–winning novel Cool Water, as well as the novel Liberty Street, three books of short fiction and three plays. Serpent in the Night Sky was short-listed for a Governor General’s Award for Drama in 1992. In 2004, she won the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career. Warren lives with her husband, a visual artist, in Regina, Saskatchewan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1554685613
• ISBN 13: 9781554685615
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384