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Susan Riley is a journalist, lawyer, partner, mother, and grandmother. She started in newspapers when the Star and the Telegram were competing in Toronto and the Free Press and the Tribune were battling in Winnipeg. She began in television at The Journal in its early days when Barbara Frum and Marylou Findley were hosting and film crews were being sent all over the world.
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We Watch the Waves is Susan Riley’s personal quest of discovery, a daughter learning to break the silence surrounding her father’s death. What drives the search and propels the story is the sudden revelation that her father’s death in August 1947 in post—war Winnipeg had been by suicide. The mystery surrounding his violent death in the basement of his home, when Riley was nine months old, grows with each new revelation.
Riley’s personal journey follows her father and RCAF Squadron 413 to the Shetland Islands in northern Scotland and south around the Cape of Good Hope to Ceylon in 1942. The intersecting path follows her mother to her wartime teaching job in Minnesota and her bond with an American social worker. In this poignant memoir, an older Riley discovers her youthful parents as they try to survive in a sexually repressed upper—class Winnipeg milieu.
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We Watch the Waves; Unravelling the Mystery of a Father's Death
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Softcover. Condition: As New. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 204. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Bright, clean, and unmared; fine. We Watch the Waves is Susan Riley's personal quest of discovery, a daughter learning to break the silence surrounding her father's passing in post-World War II Winnipeg. What drives Riley's search is the sudden revelation that her father's death had been by suicide. The mystery surrounding this incident, when the author was nine months old, grows with each new step Riley takes in her search. Years after his death, Riley follows her father and RCAF Squadron 413 to the Shetland Islands in northern Scotland and south around the Cape of Good Hope to Ceylon in 1942. An intersecting path follows her mother to her wartime teaching job in Minnesota and her bond with an American social worker. Riley re-discovers her youthful parents as they try to survive in a sexually repressive upper-class Winnipeg milieu. This memoir is written by a journalist and lawyer engaged in a dogged search for the truth with an unexpected emotional impact. The book will be read with interest for its World War II insights and its social history of Winnipeg. Primarily, its significance is that of a daughter attempting to understand the pain of a father's unexplained death. Seller Inventory # 4731
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[978-1-894283-77-9] 2007. (Trade paperback) Near fine. 204pp. Photographs. Book about RCAF Squadron 413. Locale: ; Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Memoirs, RCAF, Suicide, World War 2). Seller Inventory # 141357
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Card Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: French Flaps. No Edition Stated, Presumed 1st. Daughter seeks to unravel the mysterious death of her father. Author's debut book. 23 chapters, 204 pp. SIGNED and Dated Dec/07 by author in blue ink. Book has small bump at top front of spine, ow it is as new. Bookseller's Inventory # 180445. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000445
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