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An immensely moving novel about a woman who becomes a man, and the effect of this change on the child she abandoned. Jonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his mother Sid vanished entirely from his life. It is not until he is a grown man that Jonathan finally reconnects with his beloved lost parent, only to find, to his shock and dismay, that the woman he knew as Sid has become an elegant man named Sydney living quietly in a well-appointed house in his...
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Cyril Avery is not a real Avery - or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamorous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from and - over his many years - will struggle...
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Doubleday Canada
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Joyce Sparks, eighty-five years old, has lived in the Chestnut Park Home for the Aged ever since she fell and was relegated to a wheelchair. But when Timothy, a young volunteer at the Home, befriends stubborn and steadfast Joyce, he opens her world - and her heart - in ways she never could have imagined. Sweeping from Joyce's teenage years in a small-town '50s to her final days at the end of the twentieth century, this is a profound, witty and vibrant...
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