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A coming-of-age story, the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. Through this journey, Un beau désastre is a funny, tender portrait that expertly there will be the power of art and that of friendship to blends teenage angst and sarcasm with acts of kindness escort a luminous and demanding interior quest. and solidarity. Christine Eddie’s beautiful new novel bursts with life. Alto World rights available Alto World rights available 2020 | French BISAC: FIC019000 2020 | French ISBN: 9782896944491 Thema: FBA ISBN: 9782896944538 BISAC: FIC019000 C$22.95; 184 pgs. C$23.95; 192 pgs. Thema: FBA Errance Natalia Z. by Mattia Scarpulla by Chantal Garand Can you start all over again in a new country? Stefano Oslo, 1945. Natalia gives birth to a boy. She soon gives lives with Sophie and their daughter, Elisa, in France. He him up for adoption. Sixty years later, Tollef gets hold decides to go back to school and begins to see a society of his adoption record. He learns that his mother’s fate buckling under the tension between acquired privilege was intertwined with global events during World War II. and lack of certainty. His past identities, phantoms from a He decides to take steps to unravel the circumstances violent period in recent Italian history, pursue him in the surrounding his birth. Tollef finds out that his mother lives in form of hallucinations. When he opens his eyes he feels the Québec town of Chambly. He manages to make initial a desire for revenge. A journey between France, Italy, contact with her but Natalia seems unprepared to reveal Annika Parance Netherlands and Québec. Annika Parance her past. Éditeur Éditeur World rights available Rights sold in Norway, Ukraine, and Italy 2020 | French 2018 | French ISBN: 9782923830957 BISAC: FIC019000, FIC031080, FIC014000 ISBN: 9782923830667 BISAC: FIC000000, FIC014000, FIC025000 C$26.00; 342 pgs. Thema: F, FBA, FHX C$25.95; 326 pgs. Thema: F, FBA, FHX, FJMS Aubrey McKee Dear Evelyn by Alex Pugsley by Kathy Page An arcana of oddball angels, Alex Pugsley’s long-awaited Born between the wars on a working-class London debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior street, Harry Miles wins a scholarship and a chance to tennis brats, émigré heart surgeons and small-time thugs, escape his station, but discovers instead that poetry is renegade private school girls and runaway children as what offers him real direction. When he meets Evelyn they try to make sense of the city into which they’ve been Hill on the steps of Battersea Library, the two fall in love born. Part coming-of-age-story, part social chronicle, and as the world prepares once again for war—but over the part study of the myths that define our growing up, Aubrey ensuing decades, their capacity to care for each other McKee introduces a breathtakingly original new voice. is increasingly tested. Biblioasis