Night ambulance
By: Nicholas Ruddock
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781550816358
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Canadian fiction
Description: "Following an awkward sexual encounter under a wharf in outport Newfoundland, sixteen-year-old Rowena Savoury travels to St. John's for a secret abortion. But in the early 1970s, the procedure is illegal, and after complications, Rowena finds herself in a hospital being questioned by a young constable who is uncertain of how to proceed. Though she doesn't know it, Rowena's decision will ripple through the lives of an entire cast of characters. Patient and luminous, Night Ambulance is the story of a place on the cusp of change, where characters stand between coercive societal expectations and the right to decide their own fates."--From publisher.