North of Nowhere, South of Loss (27 page)

THE TIGER IN THE TIGER PIT

Like the rare Blue Wanderer butterfly, Emily Carpenter is never still for long. She flees emotional commitment, despite the longing of her eight-year-old son for family, and for the easygoing sheep farmer with whom she once found peace.

While Emily's eccentric mother works to reunite her scattered children, her once tyrannical father does his own scheming, made “irritable as the tiger in the tiger pit” by old age and regret. The scene is set for dramatic confrontation and unexpected revelations.

Janette Turner Hospital explores her fascination with the interweaving of time and place and displays the superlative skills as a storyteller that have won awards and critical acclaim for all of her published books.

“One feels the rush of life in her pages … a writer of remarkable talent who writes about family relationships with rare insight and compassion.”

Publishers Weekly

“Turner Hospital's gift for memorable characters and poetic prose come together in writing that is strong, wise and exciting.”

Ottawa Citizen

ISBN: 0 7022 3402 8

THE IVORY SWING

Juliet yearns for the “ebb and flow of life lived avidly”, for the pace and challenge of city living. The conflict between her love of husband and children and her own passionate need for expression is intensified by her move from small town Canada to Southern India.

The stifling restrictions on Juliet's freedom are magnified in the plight of her young widowed neighbour. The beautiful Yashoda longs to embrace the Western values that would release her from the strictures of Indian tradition. But the ancient mores are powerful and enduring, and challenging them inevitably leads to tragedy.

“The steamy, subtle, utterly impenetrable mysteries of India … a work both emotionally and stylistically deft.”

Thomas Keneally

“A truly magnificent literary achievement.”

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, USA

ISBN: 0 7022 3403 6