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- ISBN 9780007171675
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 04 Aug 2003
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields’ tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life.
Judith is a biographer whose life is subsumed by others: her eccentric husband, her secretive children and the Victorian novelist who is her subject. Her sister Charleen is a single mother and lapsed poet. While Judith analyses the minutiae of lives past and present, Charleen battles her own past ghosts and wonders desperately what her life has been about. As their mother’s wedding approaches, both sisters must come to terms with the paths they have chosen.
Originally published as two companion novels: Small Ceremonies and The Box Garden.
Carol Shields’s novels include Larry’s Party (1997), winner of the 1998 Orange Prize, and The Stone Diaries (1993), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She reached this shortlist for the second time in 2002 with Unless.
