Belonging
  • Published: 20 April 2004
  • ISBN: 9780676975383
  • Imprint: Knopf Canadian Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $40.00
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Belonging

Home Away from Home

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28 May 2010
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20 Apr 2004
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Alice Munro in the territory of Peter Mayle.

Isabel Huggan’s acclaimed Belonging is pure pleasure to read—richly entertaining, beautifully written, laced with gentle humour and valuable insights acquired during years of world travel. Beginning as a memoir and concluding with three short stories, Belonging illuminates the mysterious manner in which chance and choice together shape our lives. At the book’s core is Isabel Huggan’s stone house set among vineyards in the foothills of the Cévennes mountains in the south of France, from where she contemplates the meaning of home and the importance of remembrance.
  • Published: 20 April 2004
  • ISBN: 9780676975383
  • Imprint: Knopf Canadian Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $40.00
Categories:

Praise for Belonging

"I know readers of Belonging will say, 'It's my life between these pages, my worries, my delight.' No one reveals the intricacies and confusion of the human heart like Isabel Huggan. She writes with such elegance and grace that one of her sentences is worth a whole poem, yet she's gutsy and uncompromising. This is a book you'll have to give away and buy another and another-until finally you can keep one for yourself to read again in the small hours our lives are made of." Lorna Crozier, author of Apocrypha of Light

"A poignant and allusive exploration of the idea of home." Toronto Star

"A memoir of singular beauty." The London Free Press

"Fans of the calm, elegant intelligence of Alice Munro or Carol Shields will feel right at home." The Vancouver Sun