The Douglas notebooks: A Fable
Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), General fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Summary
At 18, Romain leaves his wealthy family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land. Éléna flees a house of mayhem, taking refuge in a monastery and later in the rustic village of Rivière-aux-Oies. One day,… while walking in the woods, Éléna hears the melody of a clarinet and comes across Romain, who calls himself Starling and whom Éléna later renames Douglas, for the strongest and most spectacular of trees. Later a child named Rose is born. But time brings great change; years later, Douglas has returned to the forest, Rose is in the village under the care of others, and Éléna is gone. 2013. Uniform title: Carnets de Douglas.