The deception of Livvy Higgs / Donna Morrissey.
The deception of Livvy Higgs / Donna Morrissey.
By
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Morrissey, Donna, 1956-
Publication Date
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2012
Publication Information
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Toronto : Viking,
Physical Description
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274 p.
Subject Term
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Older women -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Geographic Term
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Summary
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For two traumatic days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost of her younger self leads her back through a past devastated by lies and secrets. The story opens in Halifax in 2009, travels back to the French Shore of Newfoundland during the mid-thirties and the heyday of the Maritime shipping industry, makes its way to wartorn Halifax during the battle of the Atlantic in World War II, then leaps ahead to the bedside of the elder Livvy. Caught between a troubled past, and her present and worsening living conditions, Livvy is forced to pick apart the lies and secrets told by her greedy, prideful father, Durwin Higgs, who judges her a failure, and her formidable Grandmother Creed, who has mysteriously aligned herself with Livvy's father, despite their mutual hatred. Tending to Livvy during her illness is her young next-door neighbour, Gen, a single mother, social-work student, and part-time drug dealer. Overnight, a violent scene embroils the two in each other's lives in a manner that will entwine them forever.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780670066056
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