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A phone call in the night, an unexpected diagnosis, a shocking revelation - suddenly life can change forever.
'It's been here, in this bedroom, with Jack and without him, that she has found her only privacy. But now she's surrounded, day and night, by care.
Yesterday she told Colleen and Jude that her dying has changed people more than anything else she can think of, and she watched their fixed smiles as it dawned on them that this is what she wants. She wants them to keep up with her. What she is finally beginning to understand is that all those years of talk, the pleasure of idiocy, the bouts of worry, the complaints, the humouring of memory, even the offhand, underdone affection, these are the least of it. The best of it is being known. Known over time.
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BONNIE BURNARD is the winner of the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Marian Engel Award. Her first novel, A GOOD HOUSE, was published in 15 countries
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Sandra, Colleen, and Jude have been close friends throughout much of their adult lives. Now in their sixties, they and their spouses share many treasured experiences between them and had planned on many more ahead, but Sandra is dying. Now in her final days, she wants desperately to give these best-loved friends something they can hold onto for the rest of their lives. Together they revisit the past, from the painful moments to the joyful ones, rediscovering all the things that brought them together. In the wake of Sandra’s death, though, Colleen and Jude face emotional trials that affect them as individuals as well as their relationships to each other and their spouses. Moving fluidly between the friends’ current viewpoints and flashbacks, Burnard (The Good House, 1999) captures the emotional complexity and confusion of losing a loved one. Instead of focusing solely on the pain of loss, she instills a note of hopefulness. With believable characters and a heartwarming message, this story about families, the ones we’re born with and the ones we choose, is a deeply moving, thought-provoking read. --Cortney Ophoff
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- Publication date2013
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