Ebook: Alone in the Classroom
Author: Hay Elizabeth
- Tags: Aunts, Betrayal, Family secrets, Interpersonal relations, Teacher-student relationships, Electronic books, Fiction, Interpersonal relations -- Fiction, Aunts -- Fiction, Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction, Family secrets -- Fiction, Betrayal -- Fiction, Saskatchewan -- Fiction, Saskatchewan
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
- City: Saskatchewan;Toronto
- Language: English
- epub
SUMMARY:
In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day.
Connies niece, Anne, tells the story. Impelled by curiosity about her dynamic, adventurous aunt and her more conventional mother, she revisits Connies past and her mothers broken childhood. In the process, she unravels the enigma of Parley Burns and the mysterious (and unrelated) deaths of two young girls. As the novel moves deeper into their lives, the triangle of principal, teacher, student opens out into other emotional trianglesaunt, niece, lover; mother, daughter, granddaughteruntil a sudden, capsizing love thrusts Anne herself into a newly independent life.