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Summary: In 1919, only months after the end of the Great War, the men and women of Deseronto struggle to recover from wounds of the past, both visible and hidden. Kenan, a young soldier who has returned from the war damaged and disfigured, confines himself to his small house on the Bay of Quinte. His wife, attempting to adjust to the trauma that has changed their marriage, seeks advice from her Aunt Maggie. Maggie, along with her husband, Am, who cares for the town clock tower, have their own sorrows, which lie unacknowledged between them.

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  • ISBN: 9781443406925 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781443442442 (trade pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: print
    321 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2014]

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General Note:
Sequel to: "Deafening".
CatMonthString:october.14
Subject: Secrecy -- Fiction
Soldiers -- Fiction
Choral societies -- Fiction
War neuroses -- Fiction
Male friendship -- Fiction
Veterans -- Fiction
Female friendship -- Fiction
World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Canada -- Fiction
Veterans' families -- Fiction
Deseronto (Ont.) -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

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Summary: In 1919, only months after the end of the Great War, the men and women of Deseronto struggle to recover from wounds of the past, both visible and hidden. Kenan, a young soldier who has returned from the war damaged and disfigured, confines himself to his small house on the Bay of Quinte. His wife, attempting to adjust to the trauma that has changed their marriage, seeks advice from her Aunt Maggie. Maggie, along with her husband, Am, who cares for the town clock tower, have their own sorrows, which lie unacknowledged between them.

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