Come to the Window
eBook - ePub

Come to the Window

A Novel

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Come to the Window

A Novel

About this book

A drama of murder, love, and redemption set in Nova Scotia in the final year of World War I.

It's 1918. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, a more confined drama—harrowing and provocative—slowly unfolds. It begins when Elizabeth Frame murders her husband hours after their wedding and thrusts the revolver into the blowhole of a beached whale.

Crime reporter Toby Havenshaw is dispatched by the Halifax Evening Mail to cover the hearing, and his diary subsequently follows the surprising twists and turns of Elizabeth Frame's flight from the law, accompanied as she is by a love-besotted court stenographer. But Toby's diary also paints a vivid and deeply affecting portrait of his marriage to Amelia, a surgeon just returned from the front lines in France and Belgium. When a child is born to Elizabeth Frame on the lam, Amelia is drawn into events in ways she could never have imagined. And then everything changes.

Come to the Window explores a question both universal and timeless: How does one recover hope in a time of great bewilderment and grief?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Whale Intervenes on Wedding Night
  6. Smithereens
  7. On the Lam
  8. Pillow Talk
  9. Awake All Night With Police
  10. Call It Divine Intervention
  11. There Are Thirty Evil Days Coming
  12. Petit-de-Grat
  13. Just Tell Me
  14. A Peaceful Child
  15. We Don't Want to Lose Her
  16. About the Author
  17. Copyright