France Daigle: 5 books

Book cover of Le secret des soeurs Paquin
by Marie-France Daigle
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2019

Québec, 1951. Têtes blondes, regards bleus, bouches en forme de coeur. Du haut de leurs sept ans, deux nouvelles pensionnaires se tiennent par la main devant les grilles du Vieux Monastère des Ursulines. Timide et craintive, Florence est emmenée contre son gré à l’intérieur de l’école,...
Book cover of 1953: Chronicle of a Birth Foretold
by France Daigle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997

France Daigle casts a droll eye on what it means to be born a writer in the middle of the twentieth century. 1953 crackles with wit, intelligence, and insight, and the year in question emerges as a turning point not only for the heroine, but for the entire world.
Book cover of Just Fine
by France Daigle
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999

Just Fine traces the mishaps and misadventures of a conflicted agoraphobe: a woman psychologically restricted to a life indoors but spiritually inclined to wander the meadows, roads, and community beyond the house and river of her youth. Her struggle assumes historic proportions when her neighbours...
Book cover of A Fine Passage
by France Daigle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002

In this extraordinary sequel to Just Fine, we follow many of the same characters who dreamt of escape from the insular, predictable cadences of life in Acadia -- from Baltimore to Israel, San Francisco to Denmark, Moncton to Paris -- in exploration of their newly gained freedom. Whereas Just...
Book cover of S'appartenir(e)
by Joséphine Bacon, Marjolaine Beauchamp, Véronique Côté
Language: French
Release Date: March 17, 2015

Jouissif et décomplexé, «S'appartenir(e)» rassemble les paroles de huit auteures. On y parle de notre façon d'être moderne et préhistorique à la fois. De notre rapport à l'éducation. De cette foutue question du pays qui se pose encore bizarrement. De nos paradoxes si multiples. De l'Histoire....
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