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2005: Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret

2005: Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret

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A delightful, beautifully written and thoroughly engaging story of coming-of-age in the 1950s that focuses on Anne Coleman between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one, and her relationship with “Mr. MacLennan” (Canadian literary figure Hugh MacLennan), which played out in the summers in the village of North Hatley, Quebec, a picturesque resort that has been known to attract artists and writers and the upper-classes. In prose that is intimate, visual, and resonant with immediacy, Anne Coleman brings us back to summers in the 1950s, revealing the eccentricities of North Hatley and its residents, but most of all focusing on her special friendship with a man many years her senior.

Judges' Comments

“Anne Coleman, now a matured woman in her sixties, amazingly captures the voice and enthusiasm of her young self, back when she was between 13 and 21 years of age,” said Kathryn Wardropper, administrator of the award. “The judges were thrilled with her writing and Edna, herself, was a strong champion of this title.”

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