Trouble and Strife

By Johanne Levesque

Sometimes the smallest voices make the deepest impact.

Josephine Hadley, a 1930s Canadian housewife, fills her days looking after her children, her indifferent husband and a stream of Depression-era visitors. Her contribution to her guests is a bowl of stew and an open heart.

Her small world, however, is soon shattered by a tragic event which forces her to become the breadwinner. Can she run a business without sacrificing herself? And is it possible to act on a long-buried desire without remorse?

Johanne Levesque’s first novel, Trouble and Strife, is a poignant and heartbreaking look at a woman’s life in a fast-changing time. With intimate details and a deft poetic touch, Levesque has captured the spirit of an age where war and economic hardship altered the workplace, home and women’s lives forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley
• Release date: Mar 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370880478

Johanne Levesque

Ever since I was a child I fell in love with reading. My mother gave me an encyclopaedia for Christmas and I read it cover to cover. My home life was full of hurt and violence and I turned to books for solace… My love of reading morphed to writing and has become my passion. I hope you enjoy my book.