Higher Ed / Tessa McWatt.
"In her most powerful and resonant novel to date, the acclaimed writer Tessa McWatt explores the ways in which people find love in desperately uncertain times. Against a backdrop of 21st-century east London, where cuts and job crunches and unemployment are ugly, unrelenting realities, three very different love stories bloom. Francine, a university administrator who firmly believes that she is unattractive and unloveable, is unhinged after witnessing a tragic road accident. Cracked open, she is also on the verge of realizing that she is worth something to someone. Meanwhile Robin, a young film prof who Francine has lusted after from afar, is awoken to beauty in the form of the young Polish waitress in his local café, who cannot believe that he might love her back. And then there is Olivia, Robin's charismatic student, a mixed race girl growing up in a racist household, who thought she'd been abandoned by her father, Ed. Conducting research for a law school project on what society owes the dead, she stumbles across him working in a council office, where he's in charge of burying the indigent and unclaimed. Soon she realizes that Ed is not the kind of man who would abandon anybody. Thoughtful, poignant and profound, Higher Ed is a brilliantly observed novel that illuminates the human capacity for love, and lingers in the soul long after the last page is read."--Dust jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345814760 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 286 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Random House Canada, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015.
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Subject: | East End (London, England) > Fiction. London (England) > Social conditions > 21st century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Love stories. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Salmo Public Library | FIC MCW (Text) | 35163000105564 | Adult Fiction (hardback or trade paperback) | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-02 |
Castlegar Public Library | FIC MCW (Text) | 35146100005370 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Salt Spring Island Public Library | FIC McW (Text) | 33123009414971 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Gibsons Public Library | FIC MCWA (Text) | 30886001002597 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
West Pender Campus | PS8575 .W37 H53 2015 (Text) | 33001000059310 | General (WP) | Volume hold | Available | - |
Winkler Library | F McWa (Text) | 35864001951597 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |