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Field Notes: A City Girl's Search for Heart and Home in Rural Nova Scotia

“When my husband told me he didn’t want to be married any longer, I didn’t call a lawyer, talk to my minister, or even tell my best friend. My first thought — and only plan — was go to Pugwash.”

So begins Sara Jewell’s tender and heartfelt collection of essays. After a childhood of idyllic summers on Canada’s east coast, Sara knew the only place she could begin to rebuild her life — to find her heart and home — was amid the salty air and red dirt roads of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

Part humorous observation and part honest self-reflection, Sara deftly explores the people, creatures, landscapes, and experiences that make her life in rural Nova Scotia so different from the big-city one she’d grown accustomed to.

They say you can never go back. But they are wrong.

Advance praise for Field Notes:

"Within the pages of Field Notes I found a soul sister. Sara Jewell digs, with tenderness and wisdom, into the rich loam of life that nourishes rural Atlantic Canada. Delivered with gentle humour and prose as clear and lilting as the song of the hermit thrush at dusk, her thoughtful reflections and observations remind us of the harvest of healing we reap when people, landscapes, and creatures find harmony." — Deborah Carr

"Charming, brave, and spiritually refreshing, Field Notes is a love song to the country and all the humans and creatures who make their lives there. City-raised Sara Jewell's essays present a resonant array of subjects and themes, all compulsively readable and deftly explored. A funny and touching tribute to small rural communities, and the vibrant realities therein." — Marjorie Simmins

"Sara Jewell's heart is firmly rooted in rural Nova Scotia: its landscape and its people. In Field Notes, a lively cast of characters helps Jewell learn about life, love, and belonging. Through them and their stories, she learns what it means to be — finally — at home." — Pam Chamberlain

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 232
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781771084192
  • Settings
  • Nova Scotia
  • Genres
  • memoir, canada
  • Release date
  • 2016