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Old Lady Sweetly Is Twenty
Old Lady Sweetly Is Twenty
Old Lady Sweetly Is Twenty
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It is September 1951 and stunned Betty Wheatley is suffering from PVS (postvirginity syndrome). She just knows shell be unable to say no to the next amorous advance. She believes that all men can read her weaknessits written all over her face. Shes a harlot at the tender age of nineteen. And its all Camerons faultCameron with the bedroom eyes.

A reluctant Betty, banished to rural schoolism in the isolated mountain town of Narrows, British Columbia (pop. 41), takes hesitant command of the Green School with its knotholed outhouse and traitorous Quebec heaterher first taste of work, her first sniff of responsibility. Bettys pupils, fifteen barn-scented empty heads, test her mettle; Betty repeatedly fails to get the upper hand. She is constantly reminded that she is pedagogically inepta certified turkey.

She longs to run offanywhereafter every disaster and expos. But bits of skewed logic help her survive day-by-day; after all, a misanthropic roommate, a judgmental landlady, and a lascivious minister cant be any worse to cope with than her own ill-matched parents. While she skirts around amorous advances from both sexes and spiteful hate letters calling her a she-devil, Cameron, her boyfriend attending university hundreds of miles away, proves to be unfaithfulthe two-timing bastard!

Can she adapt to a lonely spinster life in the backwoods, or should she chuck the whole endeavor and run off to seek fame and fortune in Hollywood?

Fresh missteps and unexpected champions keep Betty flip-flopping and forming cockeyed deductions about everything and everyone until late springtime breezes dramatically challenge the villages offbeat game of happenstance.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 22, 2012
ISBN9781466913202
Old Lady Sweetly Is Twenty
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Denise McKay

Denise McKay, born in Vancouver, now lives in Burlington, Ontario. She studied creative writing at Ryerson University and Humber College. She is a highly creative artist with many awards to her credit. Visit her online at http://www.slideshare.net/KCOJ/art-retrospective-1881575.

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    Funny and sweet this coming-of-age tale is part-memoir and maybe that's why it feels so genuine. It's the story of a young, slightly muddled young girl leaving her tumultuous family and the man she loves (but doesn't quite trust to be true to her) to teach in the wilds of the interior of British Columbia. When Betty, the main character, gets to the town, Narrows (population:41) it seems like a foreign country with not-so-friendly natives. Mckay describes the pine woods on a summer's day so well that I could feel myself there with the scent of the needles in the warm air and the hush of the forest. I could see the ramshackle school outhouses too along with Betty when she first sees her school house. It's a vividly described book by an author with real talent. Betty struggles in the little town and with the three grades of unruly kids she has to teach but this is a story of a young woman finding her feet and her calling in life. She makes and loses friends, gets into romantic entanglements that have you grimacing (or laughing), finds herself in trouble and (usually) gets out of it again. This is a book that will keep you thinking, keep you entertained and keep you impatiently turning pages. When I finished reading Old Lady Sweetly is Twenty all I could think was: what happens to Old Lady Sweetly at 25? - and at 40? And what's this about "Old Lady" Sweetly??

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