Felt by Mark Blagrave
Felt is acclaimed author and playwright Mark Blagrave’s third novel and fourth book, and a deeply moving portrait of the relationship between a mother and son, between a man and the strong women surrounding him.
Felt is acclaimed author and playwright Mark Blagrave’s third novel and fourth book, and a deeply moving portrait of the relationship between a mother and son, between a man and the strong women surrounding him.
The Great War is over, and the summer of 1919 should be one of celebration, but Constance Haverhill has lost her mother to the Spanish influenza. Constance also lost the job managing Lord Mercer’s country estate, which she held all through the war, to a man.
A trickle that began in 1915
turned to a flood of soldiers returning to Canada needing care for their often-devastating injuries:
missing limbs, ravaged lungs, faces and minds destroyed. Many of them ended up at Toronto’s
newly opened Christie Street hospital, also known as the Dominion Orthopedic Hospital (DOH).
It was the greatest Canadian naval disaster of the First World War.
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