Awards
- Short-listed for Forest of Reading - White Pine Nonfiction 2014 (Canada)
- Winner of Forest of Reading, White Pine Nonfiction 2014 (Canada)
Overview
In this true story, Armande Martel, a young nun from Quebec, is arrested by the Germans in 1940 during a stay at her religious order's mother house in Brittany. She spends the war years in a German concentration camp. After her return to Canada, she leaves the Church, finds the love of her life in Montreal, and adopts Lise Dion.Growing up, Lise is familiar with only a few facts of her mother's past. It's when she clears her mother's small apartment after her death that Lise Dion discovers the key to the blue trunk, which was always locked. This key unlocks the mystery of Armande's early life, and Lise decides to write The Secret of the Blue Trunk.
Full Product Details
Author: Lise Dion ,
Liedewij Hawke
Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
Imprint: Dundurn Group Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.198kg
ISBN: 9781459704510
ISBN 10: 1459704517
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 12 April 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
The secrets Dion unravelled are so extraordinary, Armandes tale so poignant, it made me think about the Diary of Anne Frank. The Secret of the Blue Trunk is a stellar Canadian biography. - Toronto Star (Canada) Feb 2013 ...painfully frank and absorbing, and in the end, difficult to put down. -- Globe and Mail It is a terrible and tragic story that Dion has written, told in stark and straightforward words. - Waterloo Record Dion's reconstructed narrative offers a new voice, one that is refreshingly direct and compulsively readable. -- Montreal Review of Books
The secrets Dion unravelled are so extraordinary, Armandes tale so poignant, it made me think about the Diary of Anne Frank. The Secret of the Blue Trunk is a stellar Canadian biography. - Toronto Star (Canada) Feb 2013 ...painfully frank and absorbing, and in the end, difficult to put down. -- Globe and Mail It is a terrible and tragic story that Dion has written, told in stark and straightforward words. - Waterloo Record ...touching and commendable... -- Quill & Quire It is pure, fast-paced narrative. -- National Post Dion's reconstructed narrative offers a new (and specifically Quebecois) voice, one that is refreshingly direct and compulsively readable. -- Montreal Review of Books
The secrets Dion unravelled are so extraordinary, Armande's tale so poignant, it made me think about the Diary of Anne Frank. The Secret of the Blue Trunk is a stellar Canadian biography. -- Toronto Star, 20131002
Author Information
Lise Dion is one of Quebec’s best-loved humorists. Over the years she has written countless scripts and appeared many times on television as a dramatic actress. The Secret of the Blue Trunk, a bestseller in Quebec, is her first book, and will be made into a movie. Liedewy Hawke has won both the Canada Council Translation Prize and the John Glassco Translation Prize, and has been nominated four times for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation (French to English). She lives in Toronto.
