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COMING SOON - P.S. Don't Tell Your Mother in Audio Book format.
Spend a few hours with Nana Noonan and Maggie Mulvaney as they cheerfully inform you of the goings on in Telkwa and Terrace.
There should be a warning for drivers, says Nana. "Make sure you tell them to stop driving if they start laughing too much. Look what happened to cousin Martin. He nearly drove into the Telkwa Cafe when he was listening to you telling the story of your Dad and the cesspool."
Maggie says if that had happened, Telkwa would have beat Terrace and been the proud owners the first drive-in restaurant in the area.
COMING SOON - Queen of the Gated Community by Margo Bates
P.S. Don’t Tell Your Mother
by Margo Bates
P.S. Don’t Tell Your Mother is a slice of Canadiana which
offers a unique look into the culture of Northern British Columbia. First-time
author Margo Bates has captured the idioms, slang and expressions — the
very nature of northern life — because she lived it.
Margo got an early start
to her writing career. When she was ten-years-old, her pioneer grandmother
began a correspondence with her that lasted for over thirty years. The result
is P.S. Don’t Tell Your Mother: part fact, part fiction.
Readers soon
become immersed in the comical, quirky, and irreverent story which chronicles
the life of twelve-year-old Maggie Mulvaney and her grandmother Nana Noonan,
who is somewhat of a local legend in the town of Telkwa, British Columbia,
Pop. 852.
Margo maintains the distinctive voices of Maggie and Nana throughout,
and the supporting cast of characters promise to entertain with a new
look at an old topic: prejudice.
Telkwa in the late 50’s and early 60’s
is not much different from other small towns or tight-knit neighborhoods across
North America. There is always one character or curmudgeon that is larger than
life and who the townsfolk enjoy hearing stories about. In Telkwa, it is Nana
Noonan.
There are lots of things that get her going. Telkwa’s only Jehovah’s
Witness tops her list.
‘That Damn Jehovah!’ is the incessant phrase
in the hundreds of letters Nana sends Maggie. They live 150 miles apart, and
Nana and her letters show Maggie the human aspects of life.
The Jehovah is
hell-bent on saving Nana. His high hopes on salvation equal her
intent to remain as she is: hell-bent on being herself. After all, she is an
Anglican.
Nana tells Maggie that it is important to be fair to your fellow humans.
As long as they don’t drive you to do something foolish. Maggie thinks about the lessons
learned at Nana’s knee. She writes back and offers suggestions on how
Nana might better deal with the Jehovah.
The townsfolk place bets on Nana and
the Jehovah and when they will have their next ‘set to.’ Cash exchanges
hands on a fairly regular basis.
Only two people visit Nana more often than
her family: Constable Reems of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
and her ill-fated devotee, who visits every Saturday, rain, shine, sleet or
snow.
Nana and the Jehovah reach a stalemate one fall day in 1960. Her Irish
temper and accuracy with a gun is what gets Nana into trouble.
And Telkwa
isn’t the same
without Nana Noonan … or that Damn Jehovah.
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