Sounding the Blood

By Amanda Hale

This debut novel, set in a 1915 whaling station in the Queen Charlotte Islands, invokes the spirits of five dreamers held hostage to time, place, and memory: Leo Slaney, whose fumbled overtures to repair his marriage mask guilt and repressed desire; Nora, Leo's distraught wife destroyed by loss; Isobel, their rebellious daughter awakened to the forbidden love of a Japanese suitor; Lee Sun, an innocent seduced by opium in Victoria's Chinatown; and Kazuo Yamamoto, a wronged outsider yearning for his wife in Japan. "Hale expertly unwinds the story through the voices of each character." -- Quill & Quire

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551924846
• ISBN13: 9781551924847
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Raincoast Books
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.5"