Shadows on the Rock: Large Print
Willa Cather
Paperback
(Independently published, Sept. 8, 2019)
At the end of the seventeenth century, on that âgrey rock in the Canadian wildernessâ known as Quebec, a French family, the Auclairs, begin a life very different from the one they knew in Paris. On her motherâs death ten-year-old Cecile is entrusted with the care of the household and of her father, Euclid, the townâs apothecary. Two years later, in 1697, as the red-gold autumn sunlight pours over the rock âlike a heavy southern wineâ, Cecile and her father prepare for the long, difficult winter ahead with no word from home - news of the world they have left behind must wait until spring, when the annual boats from France are able to make their way up the St Lawrence. For her father, it will be a painful exile, but for the young Cecile life holds innumerable joys as old ties are relinquished and new ones are formedâŚ