Sanctuary Line
By: Jane Urquhart
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: W F Howes
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rearsby [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781407496993
Subjects: Women entomologists; Fiction; Farmhouses; Families; Family secrets; Interpersonal relations
Description: "Recently returned to Lake Erie to study the migratory patterns of the monarch butterfly, entomologist Liz Crane moves into her family's now-deserted farmhouse. Casting a shadow over her life is the recent death of her cousin, Amanda Butler, a gifted military strategist killed in Afghanistan, and the disappearance many years earlier of her irrepressible, charismatic uncle. Liz explores the many-layered history of the eccentric Butler family, ancestral lighthouse-keepers, agriculturalists and dreamers and re-evaluates the lives of the seasonal workers imported each summer from Mexico to harvest the fruit on the farm, with them Teo, a young boy alone in his apartness. Surrounded by memories, Liz herself is haunted by a deeply buried family secret, by four different, unexpected love affairs, and by the tragic events that ultimately altered all their futures."-- Publisher description.