![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Girl on Evangeline Beach is a wonderful coming-of-age adventure set against one of the most tragic occurrences in Canadian history. Michael soon learns that his fate is inexplicably entwined with Marie's, and that to save his own life, he must first save her's." Life seems idyllic, but Michael knows that tragedy looms he has encountered Marie before - as a ghost on a lonely stretch of beach back in his own time. There, he meets a beautiful girl named Marie, and begins to fall in love with her. He finds himself in Nova Scotia, in a time just before the deportation of the Acadians. As he slips into a coma, Michael's world splits in two and he is given a second chance at life. After a severe beating by thugs at school, his body is left broken and bleeding on an abandoned set of railroad tracks. ![]() "Michael Denshaw's life is hanging in the balance. 1953, Don Mills) was living in Toronto at the time of publication. Anne has now had two novels published which focus on the expulsion of the Acadians, the first being The Girl on Evangeline Beach and the second, Bless This. 8vo (130 x 194 mm), art-illustrated glossy card covers, with red & blue lettering to front cover, with white lettering to green spine.Īnne Laurel Carter, née Ovenden (b. Toronto - New York : Stoddart Kids, (2000). ![]()
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