A Circle on the Surface

Carol Bruneau

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ISBN: 9781771085922

A Circle on the Surface

  Author:   Carol Bruneau    
  Publisher:  Nimbus Publishing

It’s 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Each is haunted by their respective pasts, and each harbours secrets. They have hopes of a happy life together—though they have little idea how to create such a life.

Enman brings Una to his childhood home in rural Barrein, Nova Scotia, where he hopes they will stay. Una is restless and feeling increasingly trapped, and longs for the city life she once had. Una meets a mysterious man, and then a body washes up on a beach. There are rumours of German sailors roaming the dunes. When the Greenes receive the news they have been waiting for, and that Una is convinced will save her and her marriage, she begins to unravel in ways neither is prepared for.

From critically acclaimed and bestselling author Carol Bruneau comes an achingly honest portrait of a marriage in a time of war—and an examination of how it is that we come to know ourselves.

Details and Specs
ISBN associated with this title: 9781771085922
Item NB1349
PublisherNimbus Publishing
PublisherNimbus Publishing
Published on September 11 2018
Language eng
Pages 280
Format Paperback
Dimensions8.5(in) x 5.5(in)
Shipping weight375(g)
Status ACTIVE TITLE
Carol Bruneau is the author of three short story collections and four novels. Her first novel, Purple for Sky, won the 2001 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award. Her 2007 novel, Glass Voices, was a Globe and Mail Best Book. Her reviews, stories, and essays have appeared nationwide in newspapers, journals, and anthologies, and two of her novels have been published internationally. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with her husband, their dog, and their cat.

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In A Bird on Every Tree we run through a wide range of 12 beautiful and genuine stories, all connected through the considerable pull of Nova Scotia.
  

Bruneau is a master. We should know this by now, but A Bird on Every Tree is a powerful reminder.
  

Carol Bruneau's collection of short stories A Bird on Every Tree gloriously explores the complex relationship people have with the place they call home.
  

Award Winners & Nominees


Atlantic Book Awards, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)

Shortlisted Atlantic Book Awards, Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction