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The AUC Book Club invites you to an author’s event…

Tuesday, October 15th @ 7pm in the Trinity Sanctuary

(refreshments provided)

 

Please join us on October 15th for a presentation on the research underlying the historical fiction novel, The Brickworks. Author Lucy E.M. Black will share some of the information she learned about brickmaking, bridges, and the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster in Scotland.

From the back cover:

When the Tay Bridge collapsed in 1879, it killed everyone on the train that was crossing, leaving the son of the driver, young Brodie Smith, traumatized and reduced to poverty as a result of his father’s death.  Leaving home determined to make his way in the world, Brodie finds safe haven with his kindly uncle in Edinburgh and studies engineering, intent on demonstrating that the bridge disaster was not his father’s fault.  In search of adventure and further opportunities, Brodie then travels to Buffalo where he befriends Alistair, another young Scot filled with dreams and ambitions.  Together the men bring industrialization to a small rural community where they establish a brickworks, changing the lives of all those they encounter with a sense of possibility and the reality of attendant loss.  Told in beautifully crafted prose, it is Black’s incomparable voice -- her uncanny humour and an astonishing ear for dialogue – that renders The Brickworks both remarkable and unforgettable. 

 Lucy E.M. Black (she/her/hers) is the author of The Marzipan Fruit Basket, Eleanor Courtown, Stella’s Carpet, andThe Brickworks.  Her new short story collection, Class Lessons will be released October 2024. Her award-winning short stories have been published in Britain, Ireland, USA and Canada in literary journals and magazines. She lives with her partner in the small lakeside town of Port Perry, Ontario, the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island, First Nations. 

Lucy will be hosted by the AUC Book Club, and introduced by her brother AUC member, John Kuropatwa. The Brickworks is available for purchase from Chapters/Indigo, Amazon, Blue Heron Books in Uxbridge and other independent book stores. 

Watch YouTube video below on The Brickworks

Click HERE to go to Lucy E.M. Black's website