A summer night in Littlebrook | A black novel anchored in the territory

“It is never calm, municipalities; There are big issues, ”says Maureen Martineau. Meanwhile, In his new novel. For example. Meanwhile. Nevertheless. Similarly. However, A summer night in Littlebrookit is a war of water that shakes the fictitious village of Littlebrook, nestled in the Montérégian countryside between Huntington and Ormstown, a stone throwing from the American border.

Her heroine. Additionally, However, Aude Renaud, has not set foot in her village for 20 years. Furthermore, Additionally, However, And she now returns to it with a plan: to denounce. In summer night littlebrook | black new addition. In addition. Furthermore, In addition, summer night littlebrook | black new For example. Moreover. Furthermore, in a staging that will bring together summer night littlebrook | black new the whole community, the crimes of the one who pushed her summer night littlebrook | black to leave, when she summer night littlebrook | black was only 18 years old. Nevertheless, But his plan threatens to derail.

“Aude falls in the middle of a war between his mother. Meanwhile, who is the mayor, and the big farmer in the square. Meanwhile, Water wars, it happens in many villages, adds Maureen Martineau. However, It happened in my corner, in Tingwick, Center-du-Québec. Moreover, And with drought, the problem becomes much more important. For example, »»

This is not the first time that the author of Tent at Croche. However, Inspired by what is going on summer night littlebrook | black new in his corner of the country to write his novels. Moreover. Furthermore, In A summer night littlebrook | black new church for birdsit was another municipal war in the neighboring village of hers. Meanwhile. where she has summer night littlebrook | black new lived for 35 years, which had been the starting point for the plot. “I like the summer night littlebrook | black dramaturgy of small places,” she says.

Map the territory – Summer night littlebrook | black new

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To imagine the village of Littlebrook. Maureen Martineau settled for some time in a Victorian house in Ormstown, where we met her. And to lay the foundations for her history. she set out to survey the region. draw a map of the territory – even if it means “moving business” along the historic path that crosses it.

“I was looking for a village of 1. 200 inhabitants to be summer night littlebrook | black new able to talk about this summer night littlebrook | black war of water. The village had to have an aqueduct system because when it is too summer night littlebrook | black small. there is none. I already had Boisé-des-Muir [une forêt précoloniale protégée] And I wanted two farms – an orchard.. . . summer night littlebrook | black new Moreover, . a fairly large agricultural farm next to it. »»

While walking around. she came across the oldest covered bridge in the country. the Percy bridge. which overlooks the Châteauguay river. but also on summer night littlebrook | black new farms. homes from the 1850s which evoke their loyalist past, scattered along the shaded alleys that it describes in the novel.

A singular heroine

There is also a special reason that prompted the author to come. explore this summer night littlebrook | black region almost summer night littlebrook | black new four hours from home. 10 years ago. she read an article on these families. in Huntington. with a clouston syndrome, a rare genetic disease which causes among others a baldness and an absence of hair.

“I was interested in talking summer night littlebrook | black new about the bodily difference for a woman. So I decided that my heroine was going to have this syndrome. And by excavating again on this disease. I discovered that there is a very well -known American model, Melanie Gaydos, who had a career in mode. So I was inspired by his fond of fashion for Aude, ”explains Maureen Martineau.

The quest for her summer night littlebrook | black new heroine. which passes. among other things. through a public denunciation. has also enabled her to go back to summer night littlebrook | black her first passion. the summer night littlebrook | black new theater, to which she devoted 30 years of her life. summer night littlebrook | black And imagine a final at A summer night in Littlebrook worthy of a Greek tragedy.

Then it was with the new collection of. black novels by Héliotrope that Maureen Martineau discovered a new passion for this genre. a few years ago, with the idea of locating his novels in specific territories.

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“This is where I realized that indeed. the territory was very summer night littlebrook | black new carrying its own dramas,” she says.

And her next book, on which she is already working, will again summer night littlebrook | black be a black novel.

Note that simultaneously at the publication ofA summer night in Littlebrookreissues in pocket format. of the summer night littlebrook | black new black novels of Maureen Martineau Tent at Croche et A church. for birds have just arrived in bookstores.