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THE QUINTLAND SISTERS
For fans of Paula McLain and Wayne Johnston and readers of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, comes Shelley Wood's mesmerizing debut novel, THE QUINTLAND SISTERSa tour de force of imagination, readers are taken inside the devastating true story of the Dionne quintuplets, believed to be the first set of identical sisters born alive, told from the perspective of an aspiring young midwife witnessing her first delivery.
Emma Trimpany is just seventeen when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days, and when the government removes the babies from their francophone parents, making them wards of the British king, Emma signs on as their nurse.
Over six thousand daily visitors come to ogle the identical Quints playing in their custom-built playground; at the height of the Great Depression, the tourism dollars and endorsement deals pour in. While the rest of the world delights in their sameness, Emma sees each girl as unique: Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Marie, and Émilie. With her quirky eye for detail, Emma records every strange twist of events in her private journals.
As the fight over custody and revenues turns increasingly explosive, Emma is torn between the fishbowl sanctuary of Quintland and the wider world, now teetering on the brink of war. Steeped in research, THE QUINTLAND SISTERS is a novel of love, heartache, resilience, and enduring sisterhooda fictional, coming of- age story bound up in one of the strangest true tales of the past century.
THE QUINTLAND SISTERS is a work of fiction steeped in research, a coming-of-age novel bound up in one of the strangest true tales of the past century.
Shelley Wood worked for more than a decade as a medical journalist before trying her hand at fiction. Her short stories, creative nonfiction, travel writing, and essays have appeared in Bath Flash Fiction, the Nashwaak Review, The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Room, carte blanche, and The Globe and Mail. She has won the Tethered by Letters F(r)iction contest, the Okanagan Short Story Contest, the Cobalt Reviews Frank McCourt prize for creative nonfiction, and the Causeway Lit nonfiction contest. As a health reporter and editor, Wood has won several Canadian Online Publishing Awards, the U.S. Online News Award for Specialty Site journalism, and the National Institute of Health Care Management (U.S.) print journalism prize. She is also the host of the prize-winning Heart Sounds podcast. THE QUINTLAND SISTERS is her first novel.
Over six thousand daily visitors come to ogle the identical Quints playing in their custom-built playground; at the height of the Great Depression, the tourism dollars and endorsement deals pour in. While the rest of the world delights in their sameness, Emma sees each girl as unique: Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Marie, and Émilie. With her quirky eye for detail, Emma records every strange twist of events in her private journals.
As the fight over custody and revenues turns increasingly explosive, Emma is torn between the fishbowl sanctuary of Quintland and the wider world, now teetering on the brink of war. Steeped in research, THE QUINTLAND SISTERS is a novel of love, heartache, resilience, and enduring sisterhooda fictional, coming of- age story bound up in one of the strangest true tales of the past century.
THE QUINTLAND SISTERS is a work of fiction steeped in research, a coming-of-age novel bound up in one of the strangest true tales of the past century.
Shelley Wood worked for more than a decade as a medical journalist before trying her hand at fiction. Her short stories, creative nonfiction, travel writing, and essays have appeared in Bath Flash Fiction, the Nashwaak Review, The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Room, carte blanche, and The Globe and Mail. She has won the Tethered by Letters F(r)iction contest, the Okanagan Short Story Contest, the Cobalt Reviews Frank McCourt prize for creative nonfiction, and the Causeway Lit nonfiction contest. As a health reporter and editor, Wood has won several Canadian Online Publishing Awards, the U.S. Online News Award for Specialty Site journalism, and the National Institute of Health Care Management (U.S.) print journalism prize. She is also the host of the prize-winning Heart Sounds podcast. THE QUINTLAND SISTERS is her first novel.
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