- Fiction, historical, general, Ontario, fiction, Cold War, Families of military personnel
In her highly anticipated new novel, Ann-Marie MacDonald takes us back to a postwar world. For Madeleine McCarthy, high-spirited and eight years old, her family's posting to a quiet air force base near the Canadian-American border is at first welcome, secure as she is in the love of her family and unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in his own web of secrets.
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- Author
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 772
- Publisher
- Perennial, HarperCollins Publishers, Piper
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9783492246194
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“The birds saw the murder.”
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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