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"A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence - until the shock of discovery and the threat of arrest cost him everything. Forced to abandon his wife and child, Harry signs up for emigration to the newly colonized Canadian prairies. Remote and unforgiving, his allotted homestead in a place called Winter is a world away from the golden suburbs of turn-of-the-century Edwardian England. And yet it is here, isolated in a seemingly harsh…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2016368 pages · 9781455594085
- Other · English · 2015368 pages · 9781472205315
- Other · English · 2015340 pages · 9781472205292
BritonsFrontier and pioneer lifeGay menEmigration and immigrationHistoryFictionFiction, historicalCanada, fiction




