Timbre

1984 — 148 pages. Author's inscription and signature upon title page. Bookseller's rubber stamp inside front cover. Recaptures the bittersweet depression days in fifty short stories. The scene is a rural farm in the 1930s where the Hanneman family, with grace, good humour and affection, struggle to make ends meet. Author grew up during those years in the Ottawa River Valley as the youngest child in a warm, close-knit farm family. Some of the characters are real, some are not. While some stories are based on actual events, other come "mind-the-time" exchanges at family gatherings or from her mother's remembrances. Book