Joan Clark

UNA HEROÍNA DE LEYENDA EN LOS CONFINES DEL MUNDO Dos barcos vikingos salen en búsqueda de la mítica Vinlandia, en la tierra que años después será conocida como Norteamérica. Al mando de la expedición está una enigmática y temeraria mujer: Freydis, la hija ilegítima del legendario Erik, el Rojo. UNA FASCINANTE ODISEA MARÍTIMA

UNA HEROÍNA DE LEYENDA EN LOS CONFINES DEL MUNDO Dos barcos vikingos salen en búsqueda de la mítica Vinlandia, en la tierra que años después será conocida como Norteamérica. Al mando de la expedición esta una enigmatica y temeraria mujer: Freydis, la hija ilegitima del legendario Erik, el Rojo. UNA FASCINANTE ODISEA MARITIMA

This bountiful, magical novel opens with the discovery by two fishermen of a baby floating in a cradle on an ice pan in the North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. To the small fishing community into which the foundling is adopted, Aurora, as they name her with her shock of white hair, one blue eye and one brown is clearly enchanted. But it is not until Aurora is herself an old woman that she learns the heart-wrenching story behind her miraculous survival on the ice.

Joan Clarks An Audience of Chairs opens with Moranna MacKenzie living alone in her ancestral Cape Breton farmhouse, waging a war with the symptoms of bipolar disorder and grieving the loss of her two daughters, taken from her over thirty years previously. There are few people remaining in her life, as Moranna cannot help but tax the patience of nearly everyone she encounters. Her long-suffering brother Murdoch has her best interests at heart, though he is fatigued by her enormous needs and pressured by his ambitious wife to invest less time in her. Pastor Andy politely sloughs off the peculiarly intelligent yet unpalatable sermons Moranna pens for him. Her neighbour Lottie knows what it is to be an eccentric and can be counted on to come through in a pinch. The local RCMP constabulary smooths over her legal scrapes. And her lover Bun, who lives with her when not working on the ferries between Cape Breton and Newfoundland, knows how to give her a wide berth on her foul weather days. Thanks to the assistance of these sometimes reluctant guardian angels, as well as to the carefully planned inheritance left by her father (not to mention her own sheer ingenuity), Moranna has managed to get by all these years despite small-town gossips and tormenting youths.Through a series of flashbacks, we learn more about the devastating effects of Moranna s mental illness on her life and that of her family. But An Audience of Chairs also gives us a glimpse into the mind of a true iconoclast and wild spirit, who has managed despite overwhelming odds to keep hope alive.Of An Audience of Chairs, Quill and Quire said: Elegantly written and deeply grounded in place, this moving, compassionate novel is far more than a story of mental illness. Morannas quest is for peace, joy, and connectionthe same yearnings that drive us all.

Set against the vividly described Prairies in the heart of a cloistered religious sect, this is a gripping novel from a beloved Canadian author.Fifteen-year-old Jim Hobbs, alienated from life in Toronto, hitchhikes to the Prairies on a whim, where he finds shelter in an abandoned farmhouse. There, he encounters his neighbours, members of Majestic Farm, a group that abides by an old-fashioned, ultra-conservative set of rules enforced by their ruthless pastor. When Miriam, one of the pastors daughters, secretly befriends Jim, they must hide their blossoming love for one another or face terrifying consequences. In helping Miriam to escape her religious imprisonment on the farm, Jim must risk everything.