Starlight - Richard Wagamese
Category: Novel
Narrator: Wesley French
Tags: Novel, General Fiction, Literature, Adults
The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the best-selling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. A profoundly moving novel about the redemptive power of love, mercy, and compassion - and the lands ability to heal us., Frank Starlight has long settled into a quiet life working his remote farm, but his contemplative existence comes to an abrupt end with the arrival of Emmy, who has committed a desperate act so she and her child can escape a harrowing life of violence. Starlight takes in Emmy and her daughter to help them get back on their feet, and this accidental family eventually grows into a real one. But Emmys abusive ex isnt content to just let her go. He wants revenge and is determined to hunt her down., Starlight was unfinished at the time of Richard Wagameses death, yet every page radiates with his masterful storytelling, intense humanism, and insights
