Keeper of tides. [online electronic book]

Keeper of tides. [online electronic book]

Former Title
Box of the dead.

By
MacNeil, Beatrice, 1945-

Publication Date
2014

Subject Term
Electronic books.
 
Older women -- Fiction.
 
Boardinghouses -- Fiction.
 
Widows -- Fiction.
 
Parrots -- Fiction.
 
Canadian fiction.
 
Psychological fiction.

Geographic Term
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Fiction.
 
Nova Scotia -- Fiction.

Summary
Novel centers on Ivadoile Spears, aged ninety-two, who was widowed early and has run a boarding house on Cape Breton for many years in the splendid home left to her by her doctor husband. We muse with her over the turns her life has taken -- the characters who stayed with her between sea-voyages, the blood on her hands at far too young an age. Ivadoile now pauses to listen to the fat bird sing in her 'Secret Garden' and reminisces about the thorns and roses in her long life.

Language
English

ISBN
9781550814842

General Note
Originally published under the title : Box of the dead.


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