About Me
In Québec where I grew up, French was my first language and my best subject. Prompted by my mother's proud Irish roots, I also developed a growing interest for English and went on to become a professional translator. Aside from my school assignments, the first English language novel I read was Love and Friendship by Alison Lurie, and I remember thinking, if I become a writer someday, that's how I want to write!
At first, I was intrigued by the notion that writers could invent human beings entirely from scratch, with the ability to make them think, do and say absolutely anything they chose. What power! What fun! Then, with singular fascination, I realized I too could be one of them, that I had that same potential to make imaginary characters and situations come to life.
Writing is my oxygen. It gives me a sense that I'm somehow in control, that I can reconstruct the world and give it accessible meaning. In the end, writing allows me the awesome thrill and joy of creation but more importantly, it makes me feel connected.
Gaby's Penance
Set in the early 20th century, Gaby's Penance is the saga of an avant-garde, not-so-sweet Québécoise whose unspeakable sin and cruel consequences lead to her unlikely redemption.
See Gaby's Page for a synopsis, excerpt, and ordering options.
Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Scottish Cove
Anne Larochelle's curriculum includes a career as
French interpreter, an alcoholic mother, and a marriage
that ended in crushing humiliation. Now remarried, the
unclouded bliss she had expected suddenly fades when
perplexing photographs inadvertently fall into her hands.
Soon thereafter, her mother's funeral in Québec yields
an astonishing revelation; then from New-York comes an intriguing phone call. Could all these happenings be mere coincidences?
When those painful truths from her past finally settle,
Anne must seek deep within her heart for healing. There
- and nowhere else - will she find the peace that has
always eluded her.
Aline Lesage
Author
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So what's cooking on my laptop? Read on!
Non Fiction
Simple Abundance, A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, by Sarah Ban Breathnach
The Word Finder, J.I. Rodale, 1947
Fiction
Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
Victorine, by Catherine Texier
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Love and Friendship, by Alison Lurie
Fortune's Rocks, by Anita Shreve
The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
The Bridges of Madison County, by Robert James Waller
The Photograph, by Penelope Lively
The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler
A Three Turtle Summer, by Janelle Meraz Hooper
Madame Curé, by Micheline Roche
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This page was last updated: July 26, 2007
