Maxine

Imagine a new life. Maxine Carter suddenly finds herself searching for a fresh start--a way around her own gnawing fear of an untimely death and a wasted life. What she discovers is her neighbour's nine-year-old son, Kyle. As Maxine becomes the boy's constant companion and as Kyle deals with his parents' increasing absence and with life as an outsider in a new city, he slowly manages to reinvent Maxine's real and imaginative life. Smart, funny, and poignant, Claire Wilkshire's impressive debut is a novel about overcoming personal fears in a world wracked by private loss and public anxiety, and about finding friendship in the most unlikely places.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Published: 03/20/2013
ISBN: 9781550814026
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d

Review Citations: Quill & Quire 06/01/2013 pg. 29