This Lark of Stolen Time A Novel
, by Cumyn, Richard- ISBN: 9781773371177 | 1773371177
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/4/2024
During a dispiriting March snowstorm, all four of the Lauder Jones children are living at home again. It’ s a rare moment of congress before the family dissolves. Their father, Douglas, is an obscure short-story writer, and their mother, Ursula, a neuroscientist searching for the cures for Alzheimer’ s and Parkinson’ s diseases. John, the eldest, works in his mother’ s lab at Dalhousie University. Though he has only his dissertation left to complete in pursuit of his doctorate, he is in agony over the end of a love relationship and no longer wants to be a scientist. His sister Merin has returned from working in publishing in Toronto and has used a windfall inheritance to open a small independent movie house on Barrington Street, one frequented by her teenage sister Anya, an aspiring painter.
The youngest, Cary, observes his family with a keen eye through the years that follow John’ s decision to leave Halifax to work on a coast guard ship out of Prince Rupert, BC., a decision that leads to two untimely deaths and profoundly alters the lives of each member of the family.