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Breaking and entering : a novel

Gillmor, Don, author

2023

Overview

\"At 49, Beatrice Billings is rudderless. Her marriage is stale, her relationship with her son Thomas is limited to text messages--hostile haikus that he sends from university--and she is the primary caregiver for her mother, who is in the early stages of dementia. She has a complicated relationship with her older sister Ariel, with whom she carries on ongoing arguments in her head. Bea laments the loss of momentum she remembers feeling in her thirties, when she and everyone she knew was busy buying houses, having children, and renovating kitchens. Now she is reflecting on her life, worried about her inability to memorize a simple yoga sequence, and about the fact that she enjoys the idea of many things more than the actual things themselves (teaching, reading, sex). When Bea finds that she has both a talent and a passion for picking locks, the sense of anticipation that had been missing from her life returns. Breaking into other people's houses is something she's good at: she is a quick study, subtle, discreet, and never greedy. It's a dangerous hobby that makes her feel alive--and so she begins the guilty analysis of other people's lives, and eventually, her own.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Biblioasis
• Subject: Burglary Fiction. / Lock picking Fiction. / Vol avec effraction Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Crochetage Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Burglary / Lock picking
• ISBN: 9781771965231, 1771965231

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR9199.3.G5424 B74 2023	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE