Into The Heart Of The Country: A Novel - Softcover

Holdstock, Pauline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554686350 ISBN 13: 9781554686353

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2012

Synopsis

Longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Set in the eighteenth century, in what is now Manitoba, this unflinching and powerful novel takes the reader deep into unexplored territory.

Molly Norton, mixed-blood daughter of Governor Moses Norton, is ill-prepared for the ordeal fate has in store. Dressed in English clothes unsuited to the harsh conditions at the Prince of Wales Fort and forbidden to practice the traditional skills of her mother’s people, Molly bears witness to her father’s increasingly tyrannical rule. Governor Norton is suspicious of every man, but particularly resentful of Matonabbee, the esteemed hunter and Dene captain, whom he once considered his brother. But it is the explorer Samuel Hearne who receives the brunt of Norton’s temper when, returning from his expedition, he sets his sights on Molly.

In the days that follow, larger events unfold and every man, woman and child at the fort is confronted by forces greater than themselves. Allegiances are both broken and tragically upheld as one of history’s cruel ironies takes shape in the harsh ancestral landscape from which Molly descends.

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About the Author

PAULINE HOLDSTOCK’s novel Beyond Measure was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Holdstock’s other novels include The Blackbird’s Song, The Turning and The Burial Ground. She lives on Vancouver Island. Visit her online at paulineholdstock.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554686350
• ISBN 13: 9781554686353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432