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  • Abra

    by Joan Barfoot ...
    Abra Phillips has achieved the right and comfortable life – the one that by all accounts, she belongs in – with a successful and kind husband, two beloved children, a home that reflects prosperity and satisfaction.But is it the right life for her?On what looks like a desperate, maybe crazy impulse, she decides that it’s not. Instead she takes off and creates a radically solitary, self-sufficient ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Duet for Three

    by Joan Barfoot ...
    Aggie is 80, overweight, rebellious, and contrary. Her daughter June is strict, burdened, and resentful. When Aggie’s body begins to betray her in particularly difficult ways, June becomes even more overwhelmed and bitter – and begins to plot a route to her own freedom.The two are coming to the end of a lifetime of being at odds, but what sort of end will it be? The prospect of a nursing home ... Read more

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  • Critical Injuries

    by Joan Barfoot ...
    From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Luck comes the Man Booker Prize nominated Critical Injuries.Isla and her second husband Lyle are heading out in Lyle’s truck for a celebratory ice cream treat. Teenaged Roddy is finally carrying out a plan he sees leading to a new, more hopeful life away from his hometown.They’ve never met. After a catastrophic first marriage, Isla is ... Read more

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  • Some Things About Flying

    by Joan Barfoot ...
    For the very first time, middle-aged lovers Lila and Tom are going on a proper getaway, flying overseas for a few anonymous days of being together. Tom is married, Lila is not, so a real holiday isn’t the sort of thing that’s possible at home.The much-anticipated journey is supposed to be a treat, a kind of suspension of time in their real lives and their otherwise complicated relationship. But ... Read more

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  • Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch

    by Joan Barfoot ...
    One old woman crouches in a hedge, spying on a long-ago married lover. The other is the recent widow of a lifelong philanderer. Charlotte and Claudia have had quite different lives, one a single career social worker, the other a married career mother, but they've been friends since their youth, with the sort of bone-deep affection that comes of decades-long knowledge. Now at seventy, they're ... Read more

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  • Plain Jane

    by Joan Barfoot ...
    What sort of woman sees an ad for a prison penpal and sets out to correspond with a convict she knows nothing of? It seems an unlikely number of women do exactly that in real life. In fiction, one of them is Jane Smith, an unusually withdrawn but otherwise unremarkable library clerk, who is propelled, for reasons she doesn't pause to identify, to begin a correspondence with a stranger named Brian ... Read more

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  • Getting over Edgar

    by Joan Barfoot ...
    Gwen Stone's life takes an abrupt nosedive when Edgar, her husband of twenty years, decides he isn't suited to marriage and leaves her for freedom and the cliché of a shiny new red convertible. But Edgar's own life takes a considerably worse nosedive when he and his new car are mowed down at a level crossing by a passenger train, shocking Gwen once again. Moments after Edgar's very funny funeral, ... Read more

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  • Family News

    by Joan Barfoot ...
    Susannah is a journalist who considers herself something of a war correspondent from the front lines of domestic distress. Teddy, an ex-lover, is an artist and a protester on behalf of causes of peace — and the man Susannah chooses to father the child she wants. That turns out to be Lizzie, now 13 and a sort of wise child, who's beginning to figure out her own ideas and desires. As all three ... Read more

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  • The Other Me

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  • Cat's Eye

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    A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The TestamentsDisturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of ... Read more

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