Those Lancasters

by Anne Cameron

From the bestselling author Anne Cameron comes a novel that puts the fun back in dysfunctional - a light-hearted look at the trials and tribulations of a family that defines disadvantage.

Arguing, nagging and fighting are the main pastimes in the Lancaster household - usually over the family businesses of
bootlegging and marijuana growing. The father of the Lancaster family once ran a moonshine operation in an abandoned coal mine and lived the romantic life of a boot-legger, providing cheap booze to the less fortunate. With the changing times, he turns from hooch to marijuana. When a family member returns home from a trip to the US with a gang of unsavoury characters, who begin producing more potent and lethal drugs in the abandoned coal mine - it is up to the disjointed Lancasters to unite and oust the mobsters who represent a threat to this one point of family solidarity.

400 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2000

About the author

Barbara Anne Cameron (born August 20, 1938 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian novelist, poet, screenwriter and short story writer.

Cameron legally changed her name from her birth name, Barbara Cameron, to Cam Hubert and later changed her name from Cam Hubert to Anne Cameron. She has written under these names.

Much of her work is inspired by Northwest Coast First Nations' mythology and culture.

An out lesbian, Cameron lives in Tahsis, British Columbia. She has previously lived in Powell River and has spent most of her life on Vancouver Island.

(from Wikipedia)