West Wind, North Chatter

By Deanna Kent-McDonald

After a miscarriage that tears apart her hope and her marriage, Emily Reeves is forced to reinvent herself. Fighting loneliness, but determined to stick it out in her new home in Grande Prairie,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896300863
• ISBN13: 9781896300863
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Newest Pr
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Smart Chick lit

I love the style of this novel. Fun but not too "fluffy". A great book club selection. So many women can relate to the variety of issues presented. I'm waiting for her next book!

Power in the details - a great book club selection!

Deanna Kent-McDonald has written an amazing and unique first novel. Set in modern times and told through a contemporary blend of e-mail, memory and conversation, "West Wind, North Chatter" speaks to all North American women as they struggle with the questions of independence, marriage, children and friendship. Most impressive is Kent-McDonald's laser-eyed perception...subtle observations of people and their eccentricities, and how past experiences and memories boomerang back into one's life. And all these elements and characters link together to create a very real, engaging whole. At times laugh-out-loud funny, at times heart-wrenching...a perfect book to share with your female friends.

Unique and engaging

My daughter gave me this book as a Christmas gift.She has been living in Grand Prairie for about 18 months now, having married someone from there. I found the book unique in it's approach by using e-mails here and there throughout the story to introduce different characters to the reader. She describes Emily's day to day activites with such detail that one gets a very good idea of her life and all she is going through. It was most interesting to me, knowing that my daughter is a new Grand Prairie resident and how different she finds some things in her new community. I think the author deserves congratulations for a great job on her first novel and I am looking forward to reading her next one!!

A heartwarming story of a woman starting over

While at first the format of the book was a little confusing (with dated emails and letters that appeared more by order of relevance than in chronology), after a bit I began to understand and the characters unfolded. The interesting thing about this book is that, while the characters are regular people with ordinary lives, I became engrossed in what was happening and what the reactions of the characters would be. Call it akin to the trend in reality television, but maybe it is actually deeper in that, it is resfreshing to read a story with regular life taking place. There is so much in our current world to be stressed about, I felt somehow soothed in reading the story of Emily Reeves. There is also something to be said for the story of a thirty-something woman going through pregnancy, miscarriage and divorce all while starting a business and maintaining solid family ties and friendships which appeals to me. Even if you just read this for fun, the warmth of the story will come through.