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It is 1941, and tuberculosis is an ever-present threat. Marie-Claire is a teen working on her parents' farm in rural Manitoba when her wayward uncle brings the epidemic home. Confined with her brother and sister to Pembina Hills Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Marie-Claire spends the next year restoring her health and forging rel...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 7–10—It is 1940, and Canada, along with the rest of the world, is at war. Marie-Claire, 15, lives on a farm with Maman, Papa, and her younger brother and sister. Never easy, life gets much harder after down-on-his-luck Oncle Gérard comes to stay and then dies from tuberculosis in the local infirmary. Soon, Marie-Claire and her siblings are diagnosed with TB and consigned to the same institution. Adventuresome and headstrong Marie-Claire is confi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this historical novel Brooks revisits the territory of one of her earliest books (A Hill for Looking), a Manitoba tuberculosis sanatorium in the early 1940s. TB hits Marie-Claire's family hard. First her uncle, then her younger brother, then her sister, and finally Marie-Claire herself contract the disease. They en...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In the early 1940s, Marie-Claire's uncle, then her siblings, and finally Marie-Claire herself contract TB. Over the course of tw...Log In or Sign Up to Read More