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Title Statement | Orphans of empire: a novel / Grant Buday. |
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Author | Buday, Grant, 1956- |
Publication | [Victoria British Columbia]: Brindle and Glass,[2020]©2020 |
Extent of Item | 264 pages |
ISBN | 1927366895 (pbk.) 9781927366899 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3880101 |
Summary | Three stories intertwine at the site of the New Brighton Hotel on the shores of Burrard Inlet. In 1858 the serious and devoted Sir Richard Clement Moody receives the commission of a lifetime when he is sent to help establish “a second England". In 1865 Frisadie, an eighteen-year-old Kanaka housemaid, who is more entrepreneur than ingénue, arrives in New Brighton from Hawaii. She convinces Maxie Michaud, to purchase the hotel with her, and it quickly becomes the toast of the inlet. In 1883 Henry Fannin, a young, curious embalmer and magnetism devotee, arrives in New Brighton and immediately falls in love with a woman he hears crying on his first night at the hotel. Endearing, funny, and highly evocative of time and place, Orphans of Empire celebrates the private struggles of those living in the shadow of historys supposed heroes. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Hotels--Fiction--British Columbia |
Hotelkeepers--Fiction | |
Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
By Location | Burrard Inlet (B.C.)--Fiction |
Great Britain--Fiction--Colonies | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |