The holding : a novel
/ Merilyn Simonds
- Toronto : McClelland & Stewart , 2004
- 312 p. ; 21 cm.
- San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author .
Located in Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel Authors.
Alyson Thomson has left the city for a simpler life on an abandoned farm with her lover, Walker, a potter. Wandering there, she uncovers, in the ruins of a log cabin, the writings of a young woman who lived more than a hundred years before. Into Alyson's story Merilyn Simonds weaves the moving tale of Margaret MacBayne, who, with her family, left behind hardship in a seaside Scottish town in the hope of building a new home in the Canadian wilderness. The Holding is psychologically complex and beautifully rendered.
English.
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Women landowners----Fiction Abandoned farms---Fiction Women pioneers----Fiction Herbalists----Fiction Farm life----Fiction Revenge ----Fiction