Maxine

Maxine Carter suddenly finds herself searching for a fresh start-a way around her own gnawing fear of an untimely death and a wasted life.What she discovers is her neighbour'snine-year-old son, Kyle. As Maxine becomes the boy's constant companion and as Kyle deals with his parents' increasing absence and with life as an outsider in a new city,he slowly manages to reinvent Maxine's real and imaginative life.Smart, funny, and poignant, Claire Wilkshire's impressive debut is a novel about overcoming personal fears in a world wracked by private loss and public anxiety, and about finding friendship in the most unlikely places.

About the author

Claire Wilkshire is a freelance writer and editor. Her short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies and literary magazines. She lives in St. John's with writer Larry Mathews and their children, Tim and Sally. Maxine is her first novel.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Wilkshire
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2013
• EAN: 9781550814026
• ISBN: 978-1-55081-402-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 259 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature