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A Circle on the Surface by Carol Bruneau

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A Circle on the Surface

by Carol Bruneau

Narrator Ryanne Chisholm

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Length 9 hours 15 minutes

Language English

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It’s 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Each is haunted by their respective pasts, and each harbours secrets. They have hopes of a happy life together—though they have little idea how to create such a life.

Enman brings Una to his childhood home in rural Barrein, Nova Scotia, where he hopes they will stay. Una is restless and feeling increasingly trapped, and longs for the city life she once had. Una meets a mysterious man, and then a body washes up on a beach. There are rumours of German sailors roaming the dunes. When the Greenes receive the news they have been waiting for, and that Una is convinced will save her and her marriage, she she begins to unravel in ways neither is prepared for.

From critically acclaimed and bestselling author Carol Bruneau comes an achingly honest portrait of a marriage in a time of war—and an examination of how it is that we come to know ourselves.

Fiction Historical Fiction Fiction - Literary

Carol Bruneau is the author of eleven books: four short story collections, including Threshold, one work of nonfiction, No Ordinary Magic: the Art of Laurie Swim, and six novels. These include Purple for Sky, A Circle on the Surface, and These Good Hands, a novel based on the life and art of sculptor Camille Claudel, and most recently, Brighten the Corner Where You Are: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Maud Lewis, longlisted for the 2022 International Dublin Literary Award. Her fiction has been published internationally. Her articles, short fiction, and literary and visual arts reviews have appeared nationwide in journals and newspapers, and her stories and essays in various anthologies. A past winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and two Dartmouth Book Awards, Bruneau lives and writes in Halifax/Kjipuktuk, Nova Scotia/Mi’kmaki.

Ryanne is a Halifax-based actor, director and creator, having returned to the Maritimes in 2013 after a lengthy absence spent “away”. She has lived, worked, and played in Vancouver, Toronto, Nova Scotia, and South Korea. Recent acting work includes: The Drowning Girls (Neptune/DMV), The Donohue Sisters, Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary, Ibsen Bites (LunaSea), Opening Night (Festival Antigonish), and The 39 Steps (Chester Playhouse). Ryanne holds a Master’s of Fine Arts in Acting from York University.