Belonging
Home Away from Home
Published on 20. April 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-676-97538-3 (ISBN)
Description
Isabel Huggan’s acclaimed Belonging is pure pleasure to read—richly entertaining, beautifully written, laced with gentle humour and valuable insights acquired during years of world travel. Beginning as a memoir and concluding with three short stories, Belonging illuminates the mysterious manner in which chance and choice together shape our lives. At the book’s core is Isabel Huggan’s stone house set among vineyards in the foothills of the Cévennes mountains in the south of France, from where she contemplates the meaning of home and the importance of remembrance.
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Language
English
Place of publication
India
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-676-97538-3 (9780676975383)
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ISABEL HUGGAN was born in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1943. In the decade following her BA, she worked as a copy editor, teacher, and newspaper reporter. Besides writing short stories, essays, and reviews, over the years she led creative writing workshops in Canada, Switzerland, France, Australia, and the Philippines. Leaving Ottawa in 1987, she lived with her husband in Kenya and the Philippines and finally in France, where their restoration of an old stone house led to her final book Belonging. After the death of her husband in 2011, she opened a Writer's Retreat in her stone barn for individuals looking for a quiet place to write. For twenty years was a mentor for the Humber School for Writers correspondence program, and she has continued to work privately as a manuscript consultant. In 2020 she returned to Canada, and now lives in Orillia, Ontario.