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Title Statement | Gin, turpentine, pennyroyal, rue: a novel / Christine Higdon. |
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Author | Higdon, Christine |
Publication | Toronto, ON: ECW Press,[2023]©2023 |
Extent of Item | 388 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781770417069 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07276095 |
Summary | "Four working-class Vancouver sisters, still reeling from the impact of World War I and the pandemic that stole their only brother, are scraping by but attempting to make the most of the exciting 1920s. Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue is a love story--but like all love stories, it's complicated ... Morag is pregnant; she loves her husband. Georgina can't bear hers and dreams of getting an education. Harriet-Jean, still at home with her opium-addicted mother, is in love with a woman. Isla's pregnant too--and in love with her sister's husband. Only one soul knows about Isla's pregnancy, and it isn't the father. When Isla resorts to a back-street abortion and nearly dies, Llewellyn becomes hellbent on revenge. But can revenge lead to anything but disaster for a man like Llew--a policeman tangled up in running rum to Prohibition America? Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue is immersed in the complex political and social realities of the 1920s and, not-so ironically, of the 2020s: love, sex, desire, police corruption, abortion, addiction, and women wanting more. Beautifully written, with a loveable cast of characters, this novel is a tender account of love that cannot be acknowledged, of loss and regret, risk and defiance, abiding friendship, and the powerful bonds of chosen family."-- |
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By Topic | Abortion--Fiction |
Brothers--Fiction--Death | |
Families--Fiction | |
Lesbians--Fiction | |
Man-woman relationships--Fiction | |
Nineteen twenties--Fiction | |
Sisters--Fiction | |
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction | |
Women--Fiction--Social conditions--20th century--Canada | |
Working class--Fiction | |
By Location | Vancouver (B.C.)--Fiction--History--20th century |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |
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