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"Mary Rose MacKinnon is a successful author of YA fiction doing a tour of duty as stay-at-home mom while her partner, Hilary, takes a turn focusing on her career. She tries valiantly to balance the (mostly) solo parenting of two young children with the relentless needs of her aging parents.
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Flammarion Québec, Vintage Canada, Hodder & Stoughton
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, French, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780345808295
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Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host. ***Fall on Your Knees*** won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. Her play ***Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)*** won Canada's Governor General's Award and has had more than fifty productions world-wide. Other works for the theatre include *The Arab's Mouth* and the libretto for the internationally acclaimed chamber opera, Nigredo Hotel. She has acted in many plays, television dramas and feature films, including *Where the Spirit Lives* and *I've Heard the Mermaids Singing*. ([Source](https://annmariemacdonald.com/about/))
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