Tent of Blue - Preston, Rachael
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In Tent of Blue, Rachael Preston alternates between the dying days of English music hall and Vancouver in 1952 to tell the stories of Yvonne and her son Anton. Both are imprisoned, Yvonne by emotional ties to her abusive mother and, later, to a brutal impresario, and Anton by his disability and his mother's misery. Tent of Blue is a story of captivity and escape, of discovering the strength to fight back against the world and seize freedom.

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In Tent of Blue, Rachael Preston alternates between the dying days of English music hall and Vancouver in 1952 to tell the stories of Yvonne and her son Anton. Both are imprisoned, Yvonne by emotional ties to her abusive mother and, later, to a brutal impresario, and Anton by his disability and his mother's misery. Tent of Blue is a story of captivity and escape, of discovering the strength to fight back against the world and seize freedom.
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Autorenporträt
Rachael Preston has won the Hamilton and Region Arts Council Literary Award and been shortlisted for the Journey Prize. A native of Yorkshire, England, she studied at Emily Carr College, Vancouver, before moving to Hamilton. She has worked as an advertising copywriter, an ESL teacher, an editor, and a writer of film and video scripts. She now teaches creative writing at Sheridan and Mohawk colleges. Tent of Blue gave readers their first opportunity to immerse themselves in her fictional world.