| Author: | A. J. B. Johnston | ISBN: | 1230003225295 |
| Publisher: | Andrew John Bayly Johnston | Publication: | January 18, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | A. J. B. Johnston |
| ISBN: | 1230003225295 |
| Publisher: | Andrew John Bayly Johnston |
| Publication: | January 18, 2018 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Praise for The Hat
“Wonderful story! Sure to be a favorite of all who read it.” – Hugh R. MacDonald, author of Trapper Boy and Us and Them
“It’s a great novel that should be translated into French.” Claude DeGrâce, Managing Director, Société Promotion Grand-Pré.
"It's a wonderful book." Warren Perrin, Louisiana lawyer and champion of Cajun history and Acadiana
A. J. B. Johnston holds the reader close in this moving novel about the removal of Acadians from Grand-Pré in 1755. The main characters, 14-year old Marie and 10-year old Charles, are fictional, but the story is based on well-documented historical facts. The Hat presents a fresh, 21st-century interpretation of the most famous all the Acadian Deportations.
The story begins on a gusty August morning when a sister and her brother spot sails on the horizon. Soon after, foreign soldiers enter their village. Day by day, Charles and Marie—and everyone else in the village—live with building suspense. They watch with bewilderment, then deepening concern, as men-at-arms from another land take over the local church and build a fort. What is going on?
As the complications and troubles mount, Marie and Charles and Marie have to find ways to deal with difficult situations. They have to be wise and brave beyond their years.
A. J. B. Johnston is an award-winning Canadian historian and novelist. For his books on French colonial history in Atlantic Canada, France made him a chevalier of its Ordre des Palmes Académiques. His first foray into fiction was the three Thomas Pichon Novels, followed by the coming-of-age novel Something True. That book tells the story of a young Cape Breton woman who went overseas to France during the First World War.
The author’s website is ajbjohnston.com. He is on Facebook at A J B Johnston, Writer, and also occasionally posts on Instagram.
Praise for The Hat
“Wonderful story! Sure to be a favorite of all who read it.” – Hugh R. MacDonald, author of Trapper Boy and Us and Them
“It’s a great novel that should be translated into French.” Claude DeGrâce, Managing Director, Société Promotion Grand-Pré.
"It's a wonderful book." Warren Perrin, Louisiana lawyer and champion of Cajun history and Acadiana
A. J. B. Johnston holds the reader close in this moving novel about the removal of Acadians from Grand-Pré in 1755. The main characters, 14-year old Marie and 10-year old Charles, are fictional, but the story is based on well-documented historical facts. The Hat presents a fresh, 21st-century interpretation of the most famous all the Acadian Deportations.
The story begins on a gusty August morning when a sister and her brother spot sails on the horizon. Soon after, foreign soldiers enter their village. Day by day, Charles and Marie—and everyone else in the village—live with building suspense. They watch with bewilderment, then deepening concern, as men-at-arms from another land take over the local church and build a fort. What is going on?
As the complications and troubles mount, Marie and Charles and Marie have to find ways to deal with difficult situations. They have to be wise and brave beyond their years.
A. J. B. Johnston is an award-winning Canadian historian and novelist. For his books on French colonial history in Atlantic Canada, France made him a chevalier of its Ordre des Palmes Académiques. His first foray into fiction was the three Thomas Pichon Novels, followed by the coming-of-age novel Something True. That book tells the story of a young Cape Breton woman who went overseas to France during the First World War.
The author’s website is ajbjohnston.com. He is on Facebook at A J B Johnston, Writer, and also occasionally posts on Instagram.