Book
The world before us
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385680660 (trade pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9780385680646 (hc.) :
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Physical Description:
419 pages ; 20 cm
regular print
print - Publisher: Toronto : Doubleday Canada ; Anchor Canada, 2014.
- Copyright: ©2014.
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| Subject: | Missing persons -- Fiction Asylum -- Fiction Asylum Patients -- Fiction Women archivists -- Fiction London (England) -- Fiction |
| Topic Heading: | Festival of the Written Arts 2021 > Sechelt (B.C.) |
Available copies
- 13 of 17 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 17 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrace Public Library | HUN (Text) | 35151000495200 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
When she was just fifteen, smart, sensitive Jane Standen lived through a nightmare: she lost the sweet five-year-old girl she was minding during a walk in the woods. The little girl was never found, leaving her family, and Jane, devastated. Now the grown-up Jane is an archivist at a small London museum that is about to close for lack of funding. As her one last project, she is searching the archives for scraps of information related to another missing person--a woman who disappeared some 125 years ago from a Victorian asylum. As the novel moves back and forth between the museum in contemporary London, the Victorian asylum, and a dilapidated country house that seems to connect both missing people, it unforgettably explores the repercussions of small acts, the power of affection, and the irrepressible vitality of everyday objects and events.
