Murielle Cyr lives in Richelieu, Québec, just south of Montreal. She holds Creative Writing and Education degrees from Concordia University. The Daughters’ Story is her debut historical fiction novel. Eight months pregnant, Lisette and her partner Serge, who is close to the FLQ, need money and see Nadine as a possible source.Ī family saga with World Wars I and II, the Great Depression and the October crisis as backdrop, The Daughters’ Story tells the unsung, yet intensely passionate, tale of women whose unquenchable need to belong drives them to survive and thrive despite cruel conditions.Īuthor: Murielle Cyr is author of Culloo, a novella for young adults. These staggering events indirectly bring about a reunion between Nadine and her daughter Lisette, now 20 years old and embittered after being bounced from one foster home to another.
Following two FLQ kidnappings, Ottawa proclaims the War Measures Act and sends the army into Quebec. Vowing to reunite one day with her daughter, she cuts all ties with her dysfunctional Irish and French-Canadian Catholic family whose past is cluttered with secrets, betrayals, incest and violence. Her baby daughter, whose father is shrouded in secrecy, is put up for adoption without her permission. Nadine is banished to a home for unwed mothers in 1950.
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