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THE HOUSEMAID'S DAUGHTER
MUTCH, BARBARA
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
Duty and love collide on the arid plains of central South Africa. Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in
1919 to travel to South Africa and marry the fiance she has not seen for five years. Isolated and estranged in a
harsh landscape, she finds solace in her diary and the friendship of her housemaid's daughter, Ada. Cathleen
recognises in her someone she can love and respond to in a way that she cannot with her own husband and
daughter. Under Cathleen's tutelage, Ada grows into an accomplished pianist, and a reader who cannot resist
turning the pages of the diary, discovering the secrets Cathleen sought to hide. When Ada is compromised and
finds she is expecting a mixed-race child, she flees her home, determined to spare Cathleen the knowledge of
her betrayal, and the disgrace that would descend upon the family. Scorned within her own community, Ada is
forced to carve a life for herself, her child, and her music. But Cathleen still believes in Ada, and risks the
constraints of apartheid to search for her and persuade her to return with her daughter.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 60,000
HEADLINE 416 PAGES
9780755392094
$34.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
TRADE PAPER EDITION
9780755392100 ($24.99)
HOW I CAME TO SPARKLE AGAIN
MCLAREN, KAYA
Set in a Colorado ski town, this remarkable breakout novel chronicles three people and their journey from loss to
love; heartbreak to hope.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 75,000
ST. MARTIN'S PRESS 352 PAGES
9781250013873
$28.99 HC
OCTOBER 2012
THE HUNGRY GHOSTS
SELVADURAI, SHYAM
In Sri Lankan myth, a person who dies may be reborn a "hungry ghost"--a ghost with a large stomach that can
never be filled through its tiny mouth--if they have desired too much during their life. It is the duty of the living to
free the dead who are doomed to this fate by transferring karma from their own good deeds. Shivan, a troubled
young man of mixed Tamil and Sinhalese ancestry, is preparing to travel from Toronto to Sri Lanka, to rescue his
ailing grandmother and bring her back to die. But on the eve of his departure, as Shivan meditates on his past,
recalls his gradual discovery of his homosexuality, and wrestles with his complicated relationship with the wily
old woman, he discovers just how much his own desires are entwined with the political, racial and sexual mix of
Sri Lanka's past and present. In the end, he must decide: will he rescue his grandmother, or join her?
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 8000 IN CANADA
DOUBLEDAY CANADA 400 PAGES
9780385670661
$29.95 HC
AUGUST 2012
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