Sanctuary Line - Softcover

Urquhart, Jane

3.46

1,389 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771086490 ISBN 13: 9780771086496

Publisher: Emblem Editions, 2012

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A highly acclaimed national bestseller, Sanctuary Line is a riveting story of family legacies, love, betrayal and loss by award-winning author, Jane Urquhart.

Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, Jane Urquhart's stunning new novel weaves elements from the nineteenth-century past, in Ireland and Ontario, into a gradually unfolding contemporary story of events in the lives of the members of one family that come to alter their futures irrevocably. There are ancestral lighthouse-keepers, seasonal Mexican workers; the migratory patterns and survival techniques of the Monarch butterfly; the tragedy of a young woman's death during a tour of duty in Afghanistan; three very different but equally powerful love stories. Jane Urquhart brings to vivid life the things of the past that make us who we are, and reveals the sometimes difficult path to understanding and forgiveness.

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Review:

'Urquhart handles the layers of narrative with lyrical aplomb' Susan Elderkin, Financial Times. (Financial Times)

'A delicate work of rare beauty' Lucy Popescu, Independent. (Independent)

'Urquhart's style is reminiscent of that of the Pulitzer-winner Marilynne Robinson' Mary Morrissey, Irish Times. (Irish Times)

'Emotional and atmospheric' The Lady. (Lady)

'Urquhart's writing is poetic, in the sense that it is beautifully compact and restrained when describing the most powerful emotions' The Times. (The Times)

'Urquhart's prose is lovingly and skilfully constructed ... Her sparse plot dances and weaves like a butterfly' Sunday Business Post. (Sunday Business Post)

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Recently returned to Lake Erie, Ontario, to study the migratory patterns of the monarch butterfly, entomologist Liz Crane moves into her family's now-deserted farmhouse. Casting a shadow over her life is the recent death of her cousin Amanda - a gifted military strategist killed in Afghanistan - and the disappearance many years earlier of Amanda's charismatic father. Liz is also haunted by a deeply buried family secret, by four different unexpected love affairs, and by the tragic events that ultimately altered all their futures. A compelling, intricately crafted novel of family legacies, love and betrayal, by one of Canada's outstanding writers.

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