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Synopsis
It is 1939. England has declared war on Germany. Canada will march beside her. And the lives of five young friends living in the ruggedly beautiful northern highlands of Cape Breton will be changed forever. Three of them enlist with the Cape Breton Highlanders and sail off to war in November 1941: musician Benny Doucet; would-be doctor Calum MacPherson; and fisherman Hector MacDonald. But Calum's brother Hamish, handicapped and unable to serve, remains at home in Beinn Barra. And Alex MacGreggor, fisherman and poet, refuses to enlist. Alex is in love with the postmistress with the thick ankles, and when the conscription men come for him he hides in a false wall in his mother's attic. Where White Horses Gallop is a haunting, beautifully written tale of friendship and the trauma of war where emotional bullets riddle the spirit long after the guns in the Arielli Valley and the Delfzijl trenches have grown silent.
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About the Author
BEATRICE MACNEIL is the bestselling author of Where White Horses Gallop, The Moonlight Skater, and There is a Mouse in the House of Miss Crouse. In 1999, she received the Tic Butler Award for outstanding contribution to Cape Breton writing and culture. She lives in Cape Breton.
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“Beatrice MacNeil has a brilliant insight into the souls of the wounded. This is a splendid novel.” (ALISTAIR MACLEOD 2013-10-25)
“[M]agnificent...MacNeil’s novel provides a wonderful insight into personal fear and personal tragedy. It shows how war can deny a future; yet despite the interlude of sorrow the novel so well describes, there is still hope. This is clearly an award-winning novel, one which deserves a wide circulation. No review of this length could do justice to its power and profundity.” (CAPE BRETON POST 2013-10-25)
“Beatrice MacNeil has written a wonderful book, heartwrenching in its story and lyrically beautiful in its telling...Her vivid and original descriptions, her poetic metaphors and similes, and the graceful cadences of her sentences all remind us of the great pleasure to be had in the reading of finely crafted prose.” (THE GLOBE AND MAIL 2013-10-25)
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- PublisherKey Porter Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1554701112
- ISBN 13 9781554701117
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages335
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