Lawrence projects involve “relocation” - from Avery and Jean’s (and it must be said the author’s) it is “dislocation”. From the developers’ point of view, both the Aswan and St. Lawrence Seaway - their memories from that experience will influence everything that is to come. Avery and Jean met during the building of the St. There is no doubt that the first part of this novel is based on that notion of “dislocation”. Avery is an engineer, charged with developing the plans to move the temple as the Aswan Dam is completed - Jean is his Canadian wife, interested in flora, fauna and dislocation. In part one, we are introduced in 1964 to Avery and Jean Escher on a houseboat on the Nile, just below the temple of Abu Simbel. Like Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault comes in two parts. Those who loved Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces have now been waiting 12 years for a second novel - I am beating the release date by three weeks with this review, but that would seem to be a minor problem.
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