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Two worlds are intertwined in this hauntingly beautiful story as it moves from Toronto to the English moors and to Venice, Italy. The time frame shifts between present and past, linking the lives of a young Bronte scholar (a woman in the throes of a troubled love affair), a turn-of-the-century female balloonist, and an elusive explorer with the ghost - or the memory - of Emily Bronte. Urquhart reveals something about the act of artistic creati...

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After a tragic accident leaves Tamara alone on the most westerly tip of Ireland, she begins an affair with a charismatic meteorologist named Niall. At first her romance is filled with passionate secrecy, but when Niall's younger brother, Kieran, disappears after a bicycle race, Niall, unable to shake the idea that he may be to blame, slowly falls into despondency. Distraught and abandoned after their decade-long relationship, Tamara decides sh...

After a tragic accident leaves Tamara alone on the most westerly tip of Ireland, she begins an affair with a charismatic meteorologist named Niall. At first her romance is filled with passionate secrecy, but when Niall's younger brother, Kieran, disappears after a bicycle race, Niall, unable to shake the idea that he may be to blame, slowly falls into despondency. Distraught and abandoned after their decade-long relationship, Tamara decides sh...

In 1867, a good-natured Bavarian priest is sent by God and mad King Ludwig to the wilds of North America. Soon the backwoods are transformed into a parish and the settlers into a congregation, and Joseph Becker, a woodcarver, meets his future wife. Several decades later, Joseph Becker teaches his astounding carving skills to his grandchildren. One of them, Klara, shows exceptional talent and has a surfeit of what the local nuns call "a fondnes...

A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family's complex and layered past. The narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity and takes us from the harsh northern Irish coast in the 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitable land of the Canadian Shield, from the flourishing town of Port Hope to the flooded streets of Montreal, from Ottawa at the time of Confederation to a large-windowed ho...

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Eine Liebe am Ontariosee und der Niedergang eines Holzimperiums verweben sich zu einem Panorama kanadischer Geschichte: Der ergreifende Roman der preisgekrönten kanadische Bestsellerautorin Jane Urquhart Der junge Landschaftskünstler Jerome verbringt einige Monate auf einer winzigen Insel im Ontariosee. Er will beobachten, wie sich die archaische Schnee- und Eiswelt Kanadas unter dem nahenden Frühling verändert. Doch sein Idyll wird jäh erschü...

With stunning virtuosity, the stories in Jane Urquhart's dazzling first book of fiction unearth universal truths as they reach across countries and eras. A woman runs away to a cottage in the English moors to escape a love affair, shards of glass reconcile a middle-aged wife to her husband's estrangement, a grandmother makes a startling confession from her youth, a young woman discovers herself through the life of an Italian saint, and, in a s...

Written in luminous prose, The Whirlpool is a haunting tale set in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in the summer of 1889. This is the season of reckless river stunts, a time when the undertaker's widow is busy with funerals, her days shadowed by her young son's curious silence. Across the street in Kick's Hotel, where Fleda and her husband, David McDougal, have temporary rooms, Fleda dreams of the place above the whirlpool where she first encountered ...

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Nach einem Sturm zieht die junge Mary einen schönen Mann aus der Brandung, legt sich, um ihn zu wärmen, zu ihm an den Strand, aber er stirbt in ihren Armen. Für Mary jedoch, die von diesem Moment an ¿fort" ist - so nennen die Iren Menschen im Zustand geistiger Entrückung -, bleibt er lebendig. Auch als sie den Lehrer Brian O'Malley heiratet und mit ihm nach Kanada auswandert, zieht es sie immer wieder ¿fort" - zu ihrem geisterhaften Geliebten....

A novel of family legacies, love and betrayal...

Set in Ireland after WWII, this is perfect for fans of John Banville and Rose Tremain. Tamara starts an intense affair with Niall, and slowly uncovers the events surrounding the disappearance of his brother, Kieran.

Building on the reputation she established so resonantly in her first novel, The Whirlpool, Jane Urquhart now takes the reader on a magical and daring voyage - one that leads from the English moors (where the memory of Emily Bronte is as dark as it is magical) to Venice and modern-day Toronto. Changing Heaven tells the store of Ann, a young Bronte scholar, and of her doomed love affair with Arthur, an art historian obsessed with Tintoretto. In...

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From one of Canada's bestselling authors comes a stunning new novel of unusual emotional depth and compassion. Jane Urquhart's richest, most rewarding novel to date.Tam, an Englishwoman who served in World War II as an auxiliary pilot, was living on the remote, westerly shores of Ireland. But she's decided to leave her lover, the meteorologist Niall, for New York City. During the journey, the airliner she is traveling on becomes grounded by he...