As usual, Dylan is right in the middle of it all, and there are too many suspects. Despite the strict fire ban, fires keep breaking out, and it looks like arson is behind them. Bridge wood is having one of the hottest summer on record. Wildfire, the fifth in the Dylan O’Connor series, has arrived Fall 2018. I absolutely love the blue shades and shadows in this winter scene! The house directly behind Aline represents the house in which my mom grew up in Ottawa in the 1940s. Bright Shining Moment is both a character-driven novel and a glimpse into some social history…” Highly Recommended (Ruth Latta, CM Magazine)Ībove is the front and back cover image, created by the talented François Thisdale. Aline’s first-person, present-tense account makes the reader feel like her friend sharing her concerns. “Deb Loughead is an expert at showing rather than telling. And someday perhaps, even between herself and her sworn enemy Jeanine. And they can blossom when you least expect them to, between two young girls, one English and one French. Between Papa and his brother, who have been estranged for so long. Along the way she also learns that friendships can come in many forms. Soon Aline discovers that not everything is as it seems in any family during the difficult war times. And that every family has its secrets. The act sets in motion a series of events that will alter Aline’s relationship with a number of people as she seeks a way to make amends for her wrongdoing. When she steals a dime from Maman’s purse one day, she winds up spending it on a bulging bag of penny candy because the collection box is gone from Sister Madeleine’s desk. Aline wants so badly to be like the other girls who contribute to that box of coins on Sister’s desk.
And sometimes he gives his children a ride to school in his horse wagon-Aline, ashamed of their family circumstances, hides under the hay so that nobody can see her.Īline resents that Maman can’t afford to give her any money to take to Sister Madeleine to help the poor families in the parish. Every day Papa pounds on an anvil and it’s so loud that everyone can hear. Nobody else on the street has a barn, and horses and chickens out in the backyard. Cover art by François Thisdale.Īline Sauriol lives with her sister and two brothers in the Hintonburg area of Ottawa, 1942, in a fieldstone house that Papa built himself. New this Fall 2018 from Second Story Press: Bright Shining Moment.
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