Maxine

By Claire Wilkshire

Imagine a new life. Maxine Carter suddenly finds herself searching for a fresh start--a way around her own gnawing fear of an untimely death and a wasted life. What she discovers is her neighbour's nine-year-old son, Kyle. As Maxine becomes the boy's constant companion and as Kyle deals with his parents' increasing absence and with life as an outsider in a new city, he slowly manages to reinvent Maxine's real and imaginative life. Smart, funny, and poignant, Claire Wilkshire's impressive debut is a novel about overcoming personal fears in a world wracked by private loss and public anxiety, and about finding friendship in the most unlikely places.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550814028
• ISBN13: 9781550814026
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"