Linebound

by Peter Turner

Linebound is an old Eastern Townships word referring to those who have been banned for legal reasons from crossing the nearby border between Quebec and Vermont. Peter Turner’s novel is the story of a country lawyer navigating the borderlands of life. Charlie England, an Anglo born in 1975 on his family’s 200-year old Eastern Townships farm rides both sides of the line between English and French culture, the vividness of life and bleakness of death, and the profound changes from a centuries old way of life to a world with no apparent regard for what it has lost. With humour, humility, and honesty, we trace Charlie’s path between harsh and hilarious early lessons in farm and country life to football scholarships and heartache at Laval. Punctuated by absurd but uniquely human legal cases threaded through a married life that rolls through valleys of passion then isolation, Linebound is the story of a man caught in a moment of social, cultural, and personal upheaval and the messy space of difference and tolerance that is vital to making it all work.

Paperback

Published January 1, 2010

About the author

PETER TURNER was born in Liverpool in 1952 the youngest of nine children. He was educated at a local comprehensive school and started acting at the age of sixteen with The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He worked extensively in British theatre both in London and the regions. He played Terry Adams in three seasons of the hit television drama series Spearhead and his film parts included playing Trinculo in Derek Jarman’s version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. He met the Academy Award–winning American film star Gloria Grahame in London in 1978. They became lovers and their relationship lasted until the end of her life, dying from cancer in 1981. He wrote his memoir Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool in 1984. Peter has also written screenplays and devised and written scripts, British television, plays, and serials.

Reviews

[Robert Borzychowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great view of the life of an Anglo in the townships. Was a easy and fun read.