After River - Softcover

Milner, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554680492 ISBN 13: 9781554680498

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

Before River, everything was perfect. . . .

Growing up on a Canadian dairy farm less than two miles from the American border, fifteen-year-old Natalie Ward knows little of the outside world. But her loving, close-knit family is the envy of young and old alike in the nearby town of Atwood. Natalie adores her three brothers--especially Boyer, the eldest, whom she idolizes. But everything changes one hot July afternoon in 1966 when a long-haired stranger appears at their door--a soft-spoken American, a Vietnam War resister, who will test the family's morals and beliefs, and set in motion catastrophic events that will shatter Natalie's relationships with those she most dearly loves.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A poignant and deeply moving account of how scandal and conflict can devastate lives across generations.
Growing up on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia in the 1960s, just three kilometres north of the American border, Natalie Ward knew little of the outside world. But she had her family, a family so close and loving that Natalie believed they were the envy of the nearby town of Wakefield - particularly her eldest brother Boyer, whom Natalie held especially close to her heart.
But Natalie began to question her family's idyllic existence the summer she turned fifteen. The arrival of a soft-spoken stranger, an American draft-dodger called River, would test the morals and beliefs of the family and the community to breaking point. The series of events following that summer day would leave relationships shattered and the Ward family changed forever.

About the Author:

Donna Jonas Milner lives with her husband in British Columbia. After River is her first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1554680492
• ISBN 13: 9781554680498
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352