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February

Written by: Lisa Moore
Narrated by: Mary Lewis
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Winner of Canada Reads 2013 and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize

In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All 84 men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns on the rig. It begins in the present day, more than 25 years later, but spirals back again and again to the "February" that persists in Helen's mind and heart.

Writing at the peak of her form, her steadfast refusal to sentimentalize coupled with an almost shocking ability to render the precise details of her characters' physical and emotional worlds, Lisa Moore gives us her strongest work yet. Here is a novel about complex love and cauterizing grief, about past and present and how memory knits them together, about a fiercely close community and its universal struggles, and finally about our need to imagine a future, no matter how fragile, before we truly come home. This is a profound, gorgeous, heart-stopping work from one of our best writers.

©2009 Lisa Moore (P)2018 Anansi Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Heartfelt
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you humanized the characters so incredibly well. and covered one of the saddest and most traumatic canadian events so very well..well done

Gut wrenching and amazing

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The story was sweet, at times sad and funny. Lisa Moore has a knack for description, and is able to convey sentiment without being sentimental. I thought the narration was spot-on; the warmth and humanity of the story really came through.

I loved the narration

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