Intertidal Life
by Audrey Thomas
from Beaufort Books
Tattycoram
by Audrey Thomas
from Goose Lane Editions
Audrey Thomas, one of CanadaÂ’s most eminent authors, challenges her readers to follow her into new fictional territory with every new book. In Tattycoram, she travels, for the first time, not into unfamiliar countries, not into factual history, but into a distant fictional world: Charles DickensÂ’s mid-19th-century England. In ThomasÂ’s novel, Harriet Coram, abandoned as an infant at the London Foundling Hospital, becomes a maid in the Dickens home. Though kindly treated, she is plagued by the nickname "Tattycoram," taught to a caged raven by a nasty relative. Thirty years later, after many twists of fate, HattieÂ’s peace is disrupted by a woman from her past. Dickens has caricatured both of them in Little Dorrit, and Hattie must decide whether to confront the novelist who has stolen their identities.
Dolphin Conferences, Elephant Midwives, and other Astonishing Facts about Animals
Songs My Mother Taught Me
by Audrey Thomas
from Talonbooks
Republished with a new introduction by Audrey Thomas "Traps in amber that strange distant decade of the Forties". -- George Woodcock, Maclean's
Two in the Bush and Other Stories (New Canadian Library)
Real Mothers
by Audrey Thomas
from Talonbooks
Short stories about mothers and the politics of the family.
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