The Painted Hallway Non-Fiction A woman returns home to

A woman returns home to spend a weekend with old high school friends and at last understands something about her mother that had been trailing her for years

presents a forest in chiaroscuro—a delicate ecosystem held in tenuous balance by cycles of life and death

won the Margaret & John Savage First Book Award

becomes a saviour

Leon Rooke deploys his playful wit and slantwise perspective to explore the joys and the burdens

The Painted Hallway Non-Fiction A woman returns home toThe Painted Hallway by Nancy Lou Patterson. Thirteen year old Jennifer Scott, left to her own devices in her great grandmothers rambling mansion, wants to know the answer. Her research takes her deep into her familys past. Suddenly she is waking up to snowfall in summer, hearing violin music from the deserted music room and seeing visions of Thistle Manors first occupants. There are new questions to answer. Who is the angelic little girl in the white