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Hunting Down Home

Hunting Down Home

by JeanMcNeil (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $7.69

  • Used

    Paperback 1996

    $8.72
Synopsis

Hunting Down Home is told through the eyes of Morag, a seven-year-old girl who lives with her grandparents in a large house on Prince Edward Island. Separated from the mainland by a strip of water one mile wide and one mile deep, the island is home to third and fourth generation Scottish immigrants who have, through their isolation, preserved the language and way of life of their old country. Morag's mother has rebelled against the island life and abandoned it, and her, so that Morag innocently asks What's a mother?'. As she grows up she finds her mother through her own need to escape the claustrophobia of her relationship with her grandparents.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 04 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 1857998707
ISBN 13: 9781857998702
Book Overview: Jean McNeil is an extremely talented and promotable young new writer To be reissued alongside Jean McNeil's new paperback, Nights in a Foreign Country 'The richest and most rewarding element of this book ... is the wonderfully awkward but concise dialogue ... McNeil has a gift for rendering complex emotional interdependencies with clarity and control ... The promise of Jean McNeil is ... a lack of sentiment, true voices, an understanding of scale and of the power of reticence, extremes of dark and light ... [Hunting Down Home is] a novel striking for its vigour, wit and thoughtfulness' TLS 'The awesome power and powerlessness of a child shapes Jean McNeil's Hunting Down Home ... precise, cool lyricism ... a nice blend of humour and pathos' Daily Telegraph

Author Bio
Jean McNeil grew up on Cape Breton Island in Canada but has lived in London since 1991 and has spent long periods living in Latin America. Her first novel Hunting Down Home was published in 1996. She is also the author of the Rough Guide to Costa Rica.