{"product_id":"the-girl-he-left-behind-a-novel-isbn-9781443460651","title":"The Girl He Left Behind: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFifteen years ago, Willow\u003cbr\u003eAlexander was jilted at the altar by her high school sweetheart, Graham Currie,\u003cbr\u003ewho left their wedding rehearsal the night before knowing he would not be\u003cbr\u003ereturning the next day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfused and devastated, Willow\u003cbr\u003eremains in the small town of Glenmor in Cape Breton, caring for her ailing\u003cbr\u003eparents and nursing her heartache. What no one knows is that Willow lost more\u003cbr\u003ethan her marriage on that shocking day, which is why she remains on her\u003cbr\u003efamily’s expansive property, in the shadow of Christy’s Mountain, unable to let\u003cbr\u003ego of the secret she has kept hidden for more than a decade. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon after her fortieth birthday,\u003cbr\u003eWillow finds out that Graham is returning to town, without his new wife, after\u003cbr\u003eyears of working as a doctor in New York City. As Willow grapples with her\u003cbr\u003eemotions, wondering how she will deal with Graham’s arrival, tragedy strikes\u003cbr\u003eagain: her dear friend, Kathleen, and her husband, local doctor James\u003cbr\u003eMillhouse, are found dead. Willow was the last one to see the couple on the\u003cbr\u003enight they died and fears that she may have accidently had a hand in their\u003cbr\u003edeaths. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFearing both Graham’s return and her\u003cbr\u003eown imminent arrest, Willow holes up in her family home, reflecting on her past\u003cbr\u003eand bracing for her uncertain future. \u003cem\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003eGirl He Left Behind\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving story about how confronting life’s greatest\u003cbr\u003euncertainties is often the only way forward. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Themes of love and sexuality, loss and aging will generate lively book club discussions. Lyrical, moving and deeply touching, Beatrice MacNeil has created a character brimming with love and loss.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Geranium Window\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel to be treasured for both its profound psychological and philosophical insights and for the sheer beauty of MacNeil’s writing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for The Geranium Window\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If you favour a gratifying and engrossing story with a balance of tragedy and happiness, then you will enjoy \u003cem\u003eThe Geranium Window\u003c\/em\u003e“ - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Miramichi Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An eloquent story, profound and lyrical… MacNeil’s characters are imaginative and well realized, while the novel makes an effortless full circle.” - Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for Butterflies Dance in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Beatrice MacNeil’s writing resembles painting, a beautifully textured, wondrously detailed painting, of absorbing incidents and characters so real and fresh that you feel you could turn a corner and bump into them in the midst of a quarrel, a cursing, a prayer, a kiss. MacNeil’s Cape Breton is a seductive, mysterious, pastoral, strange, Gothic, and violent redoubt of illicit lusts and proud blasphemies, magical faith and redemptive love.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Elliot Clarke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Beatrice MacNeil has written a wonderful book, heartwrenching in its story and lyrically beautiful in its telling…Her vivid and original descriptions, her poetic metaphors and similes, and the graceful cadences of her sentences all remind us of the great pleasure to be had in the reading of finely crafted prose.” - The Globe and Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for Where White Horses Gallop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Beatrice MacNeil has a brilliant insight into the souls of the wounded. This is a splendid novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlistair MacLeod\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[M]agnificent…MacNeil’s novel provides a wonderful insight into personal fear and personal tragedy. It shows how war can deny a future; yet despite the interlude of sorrow the novel so well describes, there is still hope. This is clearly an award-winning novel, one which deserves a wide circulation. No review of this length could do justice to its power and profundity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCape Breton Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eKeeper of Tides\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable novel that shines an important light on the challenges of dementia, the destructive power of childhood trauma and the healing effect of friendship.It also hits on an oft-forgotten truth: that within each mother, father, friend or enemy, there s a vibrant past that has made them who they are a history full of old loves, treasured friendships, regret and hope.” - The Chronicle Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for Keeper of Tides\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"HarperAvenue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889042551013,"sku":"NP9781443460651","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781443460651.jpg?v=1730230377","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-girl-he-left-behind-a-novel-isbn-9781443460651","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}