End of the Line - Softcover

Trull, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1927882877 ISBN 13: 9781927882870

Publisher: Blue Denim Press Inc, 2023

Synopsis

Haliburton, Ontario, 1878. The new Victoria Rail Line delivers hundreds of immigrants to the last station in the Northern Townships. Some are wealthy, eager to profit from new opportunities. Most are poor and illiterate. The farmland is free if you can build a cabin and raise crops out of granite.

 

Many owe their survival to Ona McLeod and her band of fallen women who offer essential services at the Nunnery. Are you hungry? Lonely? Do you need a cure for venereal disease? The nuns can help.  Emboldened by positions of power, and supported by the moral folk of the village, Rev. Whitlock and banker Alex Smith set out to banish the women. It takes a brutal murder to reveal the worst of human greed and the best of the human heart.

 

The dead have much to teach the living at the End of the Line.  

About this title

About the Author

Janet Trull lives in the Haliburton Highlands, a land of blue lakes and rocky shores where her family has gathered for generations. She is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of short fiction, Hot Town and Something's Burning, both published by At Bay Press (Winnipeg). With small town settings and big world themes, her stories examine the tension between neighbours, sexes, races and generations during times of social and cultural change. A graduate of English at McMaster University, Trull focused on literacy throughout her career as an educator. She was a Reading Recovery teacher, a Literacy Coach and a Student Achievement Officer for the Ontario Ministry of Education. Currently, she is a freelance writer. Her essays, professional writing and short stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Canadian Living Magazine, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, subTerrain Magazine, and Geist. Subscribers to The Haliburton County Echo recognize Trull as a frequent contributor, with nostalgic essays about skinny dips, campfires and lazy afternoons in a hammock. These are accessible on her website, trullstories.comJanet Trull is the recipient of several awards, including a CBC Canada Writes challenge, a Western Magazine Award nomination, and a Commonwealth Fiction prize. Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, says, "Janet Trull knows her way around people and communities as well as the issues that hold them together, and sometimes break them apart. "

Edition details

• Publisher: Blue Denim Press Inc
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1927882877
• ISBN 13: 9781927882870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260