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Hat Girl

By (author): Wanda Campbell

Pertice McIlveen, a young Ontario woman who loves Hemingway and hates hats, receives a mysterious key in the mail. Accompanied by her best friend Es, she travels to Gannet Island off the coast of New Brunswick to find the door it fits into. There she discovers a charming cottage by the sea has been willed to her by a secret benefactor identified only as PM, on the condition she wears the hats that come with it. She accepts the challenge, leaving behind her life in Toronto and moving into Honeysuckle Cottage. As she seeks to solve the mystery of PM, Pertice is gradually changed by the hats she wears and the islanders she meets. With the help of Charlotte, the proprietor of the local bed and breakfast, her artist husband Will, and two men caught between land and sea, Pertice discovers a new kind of grace under pressure.

AUTHOR

Wanda Campbell

Wanda Campbell was born in South India and came to Canada at the age of ten. With her husband and three daughters she has camped in the National Parks in every province in Canada and has lived and worked in New Brunswick and Ontario. She now lives in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where she teaches Creative Writing at Acadia University in view of the highest tides in the world. She has published the novel Hat Girl, and three collections of poetry, Sky Fishing, Looking For Lucy and Grace. She has also edited literature anthologies for Penguin and an anthology of early Canadian women poets called Hidden Rooms. Her creative work has appeared in journals from coast to coast, including Antigonish Review, Dalhousie Review, Descant, existere, Fiddlehead, Gaspereau Review, Grain, Harpweaver, New Quarterly, Queen’s Quarterly, Room of One’s Own, Vallum, Wascana Review, Windsor Review and in the anthologies Body Language and Landmarks.


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Dimensions:

272 Pages
5.5in * 8in * .655in
320.00gr

Published:

September 30, 2013

Publisher:

Signature Editions

ISBN:

9781927426203

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Literary

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Language:

eng

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