Description
Growing up in the 1930s, Adeline Beale knows little of the outside world or the looming shadows of a second world war. Addie-as her grandfather Chauncey Beynon Beale affectionately calls her- believes that everything she could ever want or need is to be found on his cattle ranch, the place her family calls home, or in the little town twelve bush miles away, a place called Sorry. After tragedy strikes her family, Addie holds her sorrows close to her heart. Only later will she learn that her grandfather too has lived with his own secret torment for more than seventy years. It will take his slipping into blindness and dementia before the dark spectre from his past emerges, leaving her the one responsible for its consequences. And when that day arrives, when Chauncey Beale's past intersects with Addie's present, it will change her future in ways that she, and those she loves, could never have imagined.
Contributor Notes
Donna Milner was the author of four novels, including Somewhere In-Between, A Place Called Sorry, After River, an internationally acclaimed novel published in twelve countries and translated into eight languages, and The Promise of Rain, which was a Globe and Mail top 100 pick for 2010.
Born Donna Jonas in Victoria, BC, Donna spend her childhood in Vancouver. As an adult she relocated to the town of Rossland in the heart of BC's West Kootenay, and ten years later moved to the central interior city of Williams Lake. She lived her later years in an off-the-grid, eco-friendly lakeside home in the Cariboo woods with her husband, Tom, and their dog, Beau.
Editorial Reviews
"Completely wonderful! It's going to take some time to recover before I can reach for a new read. 5 stars for this finest work of Canlit!"
--Penny, The Literary Hoarders
"A Place Called Sorry was a five star read for me -- absolutely recommended!"
--Luanne, A Bookworm's World
