The Way the Crow Flies, AnnMarie MacDonald
The Way the Crow Flies, AnnMarie MacDonald
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The Way the Crow Flies
A Novel

Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Narrator: Ann Marie MacDonald

Unabridged: 28 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/06/2023


Synopsis

The optimism of the early sixties, infused with the excitement of the space race and the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of high-spirited, eight-year-old Madeleine, who welcomes her family's posting to a quiet Air Force base near the Canadian border. Secure in the love of her beautiful mother, she is unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in a web of secrets. When a local murder intersects with global forces, Jack must decide where his loyalties lie, and Madeleine will be forced to learn a lesson about the ambiguity of human morality—one she will only begin to understand when she carries her quest for the truth, and the killer, into adulthood twenty years later.

About Ann-Marie MacDonald

Novelist and dramatist Ann-Marie MacDonald is the author of the internationally bestselling and award-winning novel Fall on Your Knees. She is also the playwright of Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, which won the Governor General's Award for Drama. She lives in Toronto.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gizmology on December 03, 2007

I really loved this book and had to read her previous novel, _Fall On Your Knees_, the minute I finished _The Way the Crow Flies_. One thing that struck me about her writing was the fact that in both books, I came to a place fairly soon in each (maybe a third of the way through?) where she related a......more

Goodreads review by Mike on November 03, 2011

[Warning: this is a long review, but this complex book merits it.] This is a long, thoughtful, and multi-layered novel. It was recommended to me as a good depiction of life growing up on Canadian military bases, as I did. And it is. It centres around 8-year-old Madeleine McCarthy, who's on her fourth......more

Goodreads review by Shane on February 06, 2017

I wondered whether this was a memoir disguised as a murder mystery, or a memoir injected with a murder mystery in order to hold our interest through 800 plus pages. And yet the murder had to be the pivotal event around which all the other themes hung, and so I concluded that this book could have bee......more

Goodreads review by Liza on July 05, 2019

This book is so so amazing. I decided to rate it 5 stars, but it is actually about 4.5.The only reason that it gets only 4.5 stars is because it is a bit too long and is a slow starter. Other then that it is perfect and would get a perfect score, true 5 stars. The writing style is enchanting, Ann-Ma......more

Goodreads review by Zuzulivres on January 17, 2022

Hneď na začiatku roka som si dala výzvu v podobe vyše 900 stranovej knihy, ktorú som prečítala oveľa rýchlejšie ako som si myslela. Spočiatku som si vravela, že čo niekto potrebuje napísať na toľkých stranách, ale v konečnom dôsledku mi bolo ľúto, keď som knihu dočítavala. Možno by si niektoré časti......more