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This anthology fills a sizable gap, finding the ground between punchline and pathology, between saccharine inspiration and existential gloom. The authors neither celebrate nor demonize menopause. These are diverse depictions, sometimes lighthearted, but just as often dark and scary. 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She lives in the decaying Patterson House with Constance, a foundling, and John Hunt, an injured war veteran and the family's former gardener. When Alden is reduced to taking in boarders, she thinks she has found a way to survive until the crash of 1929 leaves her truly desperate and one particular boarder threatens to destroy everything she thinks she wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart sweeping historical novel, part ghost story, part coming of age tale and part feminist rally cry, PATTERSON HOUSE is a novel that manages to do so much at once. I loved the close examination of Toronto's history and the reality of women's limited options in the early 1900s. Alden Patterson is a fictional hero for our times, a woman trying hard to retain her independence in an era that doesn't allow for it. Cawthorne's writing is fluid and spare, allowing the novel's twists and turns to guide the reader. 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