” Genuinely moving.” (Guardian). ” Delightful.” (Mail on Sunday). ” Charming, fresh, touching...cuts through to the heart.” (Sunday Times). ` Tell me about home, please. Tell me about the weather. About the heat or dust or still-ness. Anything. & tell me about you. I keep your photo on the side without the gun. For balance.` This is a love story that spans fifty years, three lives, two continents & an ocean. It tells of school teacher Etta, who settles in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression & of the two pupils who fall in love with her: Russell, a city boy who takes to farming despite his twisted leg, & Otto, who struggles in school but always tries hard
- even when he`s sent to fight a war in a distant l&. It is a story of love & joy, pain & passion, memory & forgetting
- & one incredible journey. It is the story of Etta & Otto & Russell & James.