The FireDwellers, Margaret Laurence
The FireDwellers, Margaret Laurence
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The Fire-Dwellers

Author: Margaret Laurence

Narrator: Rebecca Auerbach

Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/25/2025

Categories: Fiction, Women, Classic


Synopsis

Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past.

The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days.

Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone’s soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krista on January 14, 2018

Ladybird, ladybird, Fly away home; Your house is on fire, Your children are gone. So begins The Fire-Dwellers, with Stacey MacAindra, formerly of Manawaka, Manitoba, now a suburban Vancouver housewife and mother of four, nearly 40, torn between flying away and flying home; dwelling in the fires there un......more

Goodreads review by Mela on June 05, 2024

Too little can be said, because there is too much to say. While reading two previous books of the series I thought: what a great novel. This time was the same. And I think it was the best of the three, or at least I rooted for the characters the most. Watching like Stacey "fought with the fire", m......more

Goodreads review by Hillary on July 21, 2018

I zoomed through this book! It's an easy read, but highly enjoyable and engaging. The book is narrated by both the author and through the voice of the main character, Stacey MacAindra. She's a 1960s housewife with 4 kids, living in the suburbs of Vancouver. Her husband, Mac, is a salesman - at first......more

Goodreads review by Wandaviolett on January 08, 2024

Kurzmeinung: Ich hätte mir mehr kanadisches Flair gewünscht. Eine Ehe in Kanada Stacey und Mac MacAindra haben früh geheiratet, zwanzig Jahre später haben sie vier Kinder. Mac ist ein Kriegsveteran aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und hat verlernt über Gefühle zu sprechen, im Grunde war er nie gesprächig.Sta......more

Goodreads review by Marie on October 30, 2023

,,[...] und alles, was die Züge jemals sagten, war: Mach dich auf, irgendwohin, nur damit was passiert, steh auf und verlasse diese Stadt." Was hat das Leben mit Ende 30 zu bieten, wenn man mit einem mäßig erfolgreichen Mann verheiratet ist, vier Kinder hat und den Tag damit verbringt, in der kanadis......more