Sylvanus Now
The time is the 1950s, and the place is Canada’s Atlantic coast at the edge of the great Newfoundland fishing banks. Sylvanus Now is a young fisherman of great charm and strength. His youthful desires are simple: he wants a suit to lure a girl—the fine-boned beauty Adelaide—and he knows exactly how much fish he has to catch to pay for it. Adelaide, however, has other dreams. She longs to escape the sea, the fish, and the stultifying community, but her need of refuge from her own troubled family leads her to Sylvanus and life in the neighbouring outport. Set against the love story of Addie and Sylvanus is the sea, the Great Mother that is on the cusp of…
$21.00
September 22, 2009
Donna Morrissey has written six nationally bestselling novels. She has received awards in Canada, the U.S., and England. Her novel Sylvanus Now was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and she was nominated for a Gemini for best writing for the film Clothesline Patch. Her fiction has been translated into several different languages. Born and raised in Newfoundland, she now lives in Halifax.
Rage the Night
Donna Morrissey
Pluck
Donna Morrissey
The Fortunate Brother
Donna Morrissey
The Deception of Livvy Higgs
Donna Morrissey
Cross Katie Kross
Donna Morrissey
Sylvanus Now
Donna Morrissey
Downhill Chance
Donna Morrissey
Kit's Law
Donna Morrissey
What They Wanted
Donna Morrissey
Someday I'll Find You
C.C. Humphreys
The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Claudia Gray
A Lady's Guide to Scandal
Sophie Irwin
Follow the Sun
Liz Locke
The Late Mrs. Willoughby
Claudia Gray
The School of Mirrors
Eva Stachniak
The Painted Veil
W Somerset Maugham
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Snow Country
Sebastian Faulks
Acts of Love and War
Maggie Brookes
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
Sophie Irwin
The Murder of Mr. Wickham
Claudia Gray
Free Love
Tessa Hadley
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
Chris Cleave