2012 Alberta Readers' Choice Award Semi-Finalist
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The Little Shadows | Marina Endicott | Doubleday Canada
About the Book
The Little Shadows revolves around three sisters in the world of vaudeville before and during the First World War. We follow the lives of all three in turn: Aurora, the eldest and most beautiful, who is sixteen when the book opens; thoughtful Clover, a year younger; and the youngest sister, joyous headstrong sprite Bella, who is thirteen. The girls, overseen by their fond but barely coping Mama, are forced to make their living as a singing act after the untimely death of their father. They begin with little besides youth and hope, but Marina Endicott’s genius is to show how the three girls slowly and steadily evolve into true artists even as they navigate their way to adulthood among a cast of extraordinary characters – some of them charming charlatans, some of them unpredictable eccentrics, and some of them just ordinary-seeming humans with magical gifts.
About the Author
Author, director, playwright and editor Marina Endicott’s previous novel, Good to a Fault, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Canada and the Caribbean, and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her first novel, Open Arms, was shortlisted for the Amazon / Books in Canada First Novel Award. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Governor General Award, Endicott presents The Little Shadows, which follows the story of three sisters in the world of vaudeville before and during the First World War.
