Audio Books by Amanda Hale
Narrated by the Author
Audio Books by Amanda Hale
Narrated by the Author
MAD HATTER
When Christopher Brooke is arrested under Regulation 18B in June 1940 a slow process of personal disintegration begins, affecting his family irreversibly. Moving from the pre-war political era of Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Mad Hatter delves into the wartime lives of Britons, and tracks them into the aftermath in a disturbing but ultimately transcendent story of a daughter’s search for family history.
This fictionalized memoir, following Christopher Brooke from pacifism into delusional extremism, is told with subtlety and compassion. I am left exhilarated by Amanda Hale’s ability to tell her experience with such insight and candour. Susan Crean, author of Finding Mr. Wong
Mad Hatter is a fictionalized memoir that marries the clarity of childhood perception with the wisdom of adult recall.
The Reddening Path
The story of a Guatemalan adoptee’s journey home to search for her birth mother. Adopted as an infant by a Toronto lesbian couple, Paméla travels to Guatemala as an adult to search for her birth mother. Her quest uncovers a tangle of political and romantic intrigue as she discovers her Mayan heritage and learns about the complexities of life in Guatemala. A parallel narrative tells the story of Malintzín, the indigenous slave who became the mistress of Hernando Cortés. The Spanish conquest weaves throughout the narrative, coloring the lives of everyone Paméla encounters in her birth land.