Ferret Girl

Haskin, Colin

ISBN 10: 098691990X / ISBN 13: 9780986919909

Published by DBR Publishing, Stirling, Ontario, Canada, 2011

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The book is inscribed, signed and dated by the author on the full title page. The book is near fine with slight edge wear. Seller Inventory # 013639

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ferret Girl

Publisher: DBR Publishing, Stirling, Ontario, Canada

Publication Date: 2011

Binding: Trade Paperback

Illustrator: Brophy, Gerry

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition, First Printing

About this title

Synopsis:

At 14, Fiona has had enough of her parents' problems and longs to escape their world and be with Bandit, her pet ferret.

The trouble is she must somehow shrink to his size, something she achieves by attempting an ill-advised physics experiment. Then it's a succession of wild adventures and close encounters with a great-horned owl, a rat, a fox, and a vainglorious house cat. She has entered the food chain.

Bandit, meanwhile, endeavors to teach her 'the way of the ferret.' However, he proves to have only a theoretical grasp on the subject, and Fiona must assume leadership.

She soon regrets wanting to know what it would be like to be a ferret, and begins to long for her family, but without a way to reverse the shrinking process Fiona arrives at the terrifying realization she is trapped in another dimension.

About the Author:

Colin Haskin is a former editor at The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. He lives in an old house on the banks of the Trent River in eastern Ontario where he renovates and writes, and recovers from bouts of both. The renovations will one day end, but not the writing.

He grew up in pre-television New Zealand where he was the youngest member of a family of serious readers whose idea of an outing was to cycle, en masse, to the municipal library. He read everything, especially if it was by the likes of Rosemary Sutcliff, John Wyndham, Arthur Ransome, Henry Treece, Paul Gallico or Farley Mowat.

At 18, wishing to somehow find a way to write for a living, he joined a small daily newspaper and later left home to see the world, stopping once in a while to work on dailies in Australia, Britain, Los Angeles, British Columbia, and elsewhere.

His plan was to one day return to New Zealand, but he fell in love with all things Canadian. He also fell in love with sailing, and built a blue-water cruising yacht which he lost in a storm off California that took the lives of two crew members. Afterward, he moved to Toronto and spent 25 years at The Globe and Mail.

He never gave up on boats or books, and shares both with family and visitors to his house on the river where he is given to pondering the local wildlife. He believes there is a novel to be found among the social life of Canada Geese.