Place in Mind

"A Place In Mind" is the story of Brant Healey and his search (far from his academic and aristocratic background) for a place he can call home. In 1929 he buys a cabin in northern Maine and befriends an unlettered and superstitious woodsman, Louis. And it's the river McLean, as well as the surrounding woodlands, that bring them together season after season to fly-fish for brown and brook trout, to hunt for grouse, woodcock and deer, and to share each other's company. As Brant and Louis reflect on their lives in this remote landscape, stories emerge with a luminous coherence: of Louis' brutal barroom brawl with Johnny Morse; of Brant's passionate affair with Anna Graves in a small southern town just after World War I; of the tragic and untimely death of Louis' only son, Charles; and of Brant's own fall from health. "A Place In Mind" is one of those novels that are easy to pick up, and hard to put down.Lea, Sydney is the author of 'Place in Mind' with ISBN 9781885266392 and ISBN 1885266391.