In the tradition of A. S. Byatt's Possession, a hauntingly poignant novel about madness, loss, and the ties that bind our past to our present   Deep in the woods of northern England, somewhere between a dilapidated estate and an abandoned Victorian asylum, fifteen-year-old Jane Standen lived through a nightmare.  She was babysitting a sweet young girl named Lily, and in one fleeting moment, lost her. The little girl was never found, leaving her family and Jane devastated. Twenty years later, Jane is an archivist at a small London museum that is about to close for lack of funding. As a final research project--an endeavor inspired in part by her painful past--Jane surveys the archives for information related to another missing person: a woman who disappeared over one hundred years ago in the same woods where Lily was lost. As Jane pieces moments in history together, a portrait of a fascinating group of people starts to unfurl. Inexplicably tied to the mysterious disappearance of long ago, Jane finds tender details of their lives at the country estate and in the asylum that are linked to her own heartbroken world, and their story from all those years ago may now help Jane find a way to move on. In riveting, beautiful prose, The World Before Us explores the powerful notion that history is a closely connected part of us--kept alive by the resonance of our daily choices--reminding us of the possibility that we are less alone than we might think.

Product Description: In the tradition of A. S. Byatt's Possession, a hauntingly poignant novel about madness, loss, and the ties that bind our past to our present   Deep in the woods of northern England, somewhere between a dilapidated estate and an abandoned Victorian asylum, fifteen-year-old Jane Standen lived through a nightmare...read more

Product Description:  Stay follows Abbey, a young woman from Canada now living in a village outside Galway. She falls in love with Dermot, an older Irish man, in an unconventional, affectionate but troubled relationship.      The extraordinary skill of Stay lies in its unsentimental depiction of modern Ireland...read more

Product Description: A collection of engaging essays on writing and material culture that addresses our ability to know or understand 'things'. In A Peepshow with Views of the Interior, acclaimed fiction writer and poet Aislinn Hunter writes lyrical paratexts on topics ranging from Charlotte Bronte's dogs, bird displays in museums, peep shows, and clocks and convalescence...read more

Product Description: A Ragged Pen brings to the page five essays on memory. First delivered in Vancouver in the spring of 2005, these talks – by Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne Simpson and Jan Zwicky – examine the narrative challenges, lyric energy and questions of verity that surround the subject of memory in a creative context...read more

Product Description: Poet Aislinn Hunter asks, What if our writers and artists, scientists and revolutionaries had used other words or media, told other stories, developed alternative assumptions and conclusions? In The Possible Past, she finds tentative answers, expressed in startling, vivid imagery and dark musical rhythms...read more

Seven women offer personal stories with different points of view about friendship, loyalty, loss, betrayal, being in a clique, and other day-to-day experiences of teenage girls.

Product Description: Book by Hunter, Aislinn (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Hunter, Aislinn (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)