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September 2013
On Sale: September 18, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 1459502795
EAN: 9781459502796
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Fiction | Historical
In 1920 Julia Robertson is a young, beautiful war widow,
aware of the radical new ideas bursting into the settled
thinking of post-Victorian Canada. That new thinking, about
the human unconscious through Freud and Jung, about sexual
frankness, about women as well as skepticism about religion,
shaped the emerging 20th century world and infused modern
painting, music, and literature. Julia struggles with
her conscience over the man she most trusts when she is
passionately infatuated with another, an Englishman. He
leads her into the orbit of the young and charming Prince of
Wales. Leaving behind the stuffy world of Halifax, she goes
to London and Paris and then the South of France where she
renews her close friendship with one of the great Canadian
painters of the period, J.W. Morrice. She becomes part of
Morrice's circle of artists and admirers, among them Henri
Matisse, who was Morrice's close friend. Ultimately Julia
has to resolve a dilemma that dramatically tests all her
progressive ideas. With this novel Robert MacNeil
returns to a character who first appears in his bestselling
novel set at the time of the Halifax Explosion, Burden
of Desire. "Julia's appetite for life and her bold
embrace of the modern world was so vivid to me that I had to
follow her life into the postwar world," says MacNeil. The
result is a fascinating account of a young woman in the
midst of a world in transformation.
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