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The Wheaton
The Wheaton
The Wheaton
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A year after the early death of his wife, John Davies comes hesitantly out of retirement to take a job at The Wheaton, a senior’s residence. Having resisted ‘getting involved’ for his entire life, John is immediately out of his comfort zone. The Wheaton is a boundary-free environment, and he is immersed in the kinds of sticky matters he usually does his best to avoid. Surrounded by mortality and the ghosts of regret haunting many of the residents, John begins to do the unthinkable: relate to his fellow creatures and reconsider his past. After a life of being a selfish husband and a distracted absentee father, is it too late to try to make amends?
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Release dateNov 1, 2019
ISBN9781988754215
The Wheaton
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Joanne Jackson

A Snake in the Raspberry Patch is Joanne Jackson’s second novel. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with her husband and a border collie named Mick. If you keep your eyes peeled you will see the three of them walking every morning come rain, or shine, snow, or whatever weather Saskatchewan might throw at them.

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