Once Upon an Effing Time (Paperback)

Paperback. A quirky, thrilling, darkly-funny page-turner that explores the fuzzy lines between sanity and insanity, magic and reality, love and duty.Its 1969 and eight-year-old Elizabeth and her mother Margaret make a daring escape from their hard life in a factory town in Ontarios cheese belt. Stealing a school bus and slipping across the US border, they believe they are destined for greatnessand when Elizabeth discovers she can tell the fortunes of the desperate in roadside diners, she knows shes found their ticket to a better life in California. But when strangers appear with the promises of utopia, Margaret drifts into the deranged world of a doomsday cult, and young Elizabeth has no choice but to follow, watching as her mother slips further into a life of apocalyptic fervor. Thrilling, sharp, gutting, and uplifting, Once Upon an Effing Time is a story of 1970s counterculture, shifting realities, the unpredictable behavior of love, and the struggle to leave the past behind. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …