A NEW SEASON
A New Season
by author Terry Fallis
Read by John Butler
From beloved and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a novel unlike any of his others. A thoughtful exploration of aging, loss, family, friendship, and love, all with his trademark humour and heart.
Jack McMaster is learning to live with loss. He passes his days knowing he has the support of his family and his friends, but Jack can’t shake the feeling that his life has gone gray, and that time is slipping by so quickly.
Inspired by his lifelong fascination with 1920s Paris, Jack finally visits the City of Light, following the footsteps of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and wandering the Left Bank. Slowly, the colour seeps back into his life, aided by a chance encounter in a café that leads Jack into the art world, and a Paris mystery nearly a century old.
Full of sincerity and warmth, A New Season shows us all that sometimes, making a change can save your life.
John Butler reads A New Season, representing the community of grey Highlands.
John, a retired community health and social service planning consultant, was the founder and President of The Agora Group of human service consultants. He lives on a rural property near Port Law in Grey Highlands with his wife June and a gaggle of pets.
A student of local history, he is the author of House of Refuge, a book about the first few years, in the early twentieth century, of Grey County’s home for elderly and indigent people (his co-author, Frederick Gee — an inmate of the House — passed away 118 years ago).
He has a passion for works of fiction and nonfiction about the creation and growth of communities, and how they nurture us and strangle us at the same time. An avid climate activist, John is a member of the Grey Highlands Climate Action Group and writes an occasional newsletter, The Village Green, on climate and environmental issues.
More to come.
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