Description The Alder Bed is an intricate, multi-generational family saga filled with secrets and regrets.
Readers will find this rich, authentic, if disturbing, portrayal of women\'s lives in a remote coastal town deeply convincing and entirely captivating, and will race towards the ending as dark secrets are revealed.....
By focusing on the women of three generations, and on the man who dominated their lives, it demonstrates the fortitude of women living harsh lives with men either literally absent or emotionally bankrupt.
The Alder Bed is a complex story of loss and heartache.
Deprived of their mother\'s presence, and without any meaningful parental stability, her daughters grow up estranged from one another, each one harbouring her own tightly-held memories and secrets.
Lexie gives birth to three daughters in quick succession, but, largely abandoned by her husband, frail by nature and beset by painful memories, she suffers a breakdown and is institutionalized.
Upon his return, Dan, unable to settle back into his old life, turns to alcohol.
They marry in 1915, as he prepares to leave for the war.
Bereft, his fifteen-year-old daughter, Lexie, becomes involved with Dan Connor, local hell-raiser, and becomes pregnant.
In 1914, Captain Ken Fisher dies at sea.
We meet the Fishers, a minor fish trading family living in a small Newfoundland outport near the turn of the century.
Description The Alder Bed is an intricate, multi-generational family saga filled with secrets and regrets
