My Turquoise Years: A Memoir

(Paperback, 2nd Enlarged edition)

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**A funny, touching memoir of coming of age with an absent mother in a vanished time. **

The setting is Vancouver Island, the year 1960. It is the era of The Three Stooges and the Red Menace, the apex of plastic, Arborite, and everything turquoise: high heels, pedal pushers, refrigerators, even cars. Throughout her childhood, Marion Farrant heard wild family stories of the sophisticated life her mother, Nancy, led far away in Australia. Nancy's world of riches and men seemed light years away from Cordova Bay on Vancouver Island, where Marion lived with her aunt and uncle. But things changed the year she entered her teens. That year, Nancy threw everyone into a tizzy with the surprise announcement that she was coming for a visit. This second edition of Farrant's beloved memoir of her fourteenth summer, capturing a lost time and place with love and hilarity, includes five additional stories and a preface by the author. Witty, tender, and wry, My Turquoise Years is a book for anyone who remembers being a teenager.

Author Bio

M.A.C. Farrant is the author of seventeen works of fiction, prose poems, non-fiction, memoir, two plays, and over one hundred book reviews and essays for the Vancouver Sun and the Toronto Globe & Mail. Her memoir, My Turquoise Years, which she adapted for the stage, premiered in 2013 at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver. Her novel, The Strange Truth About Us - A Novel of Absence," (Talon) was cited as a Best Fiction Book of 2012 by the Globe and Mail. The World Afloat (2014, Talon), the first in a trilogy of collections of miniature fiction and prose poems, won the Victoria Book Prize. One Good Thing--a living memoir, published by Talon Books in 2021, was a BC Bestseller. Forthcoming from Talon Books: Jigsaw--a puzzle in ninety-three-and-a-half pieces, (2023, NF); My Turquoise Years 20th Anniversary Edition (2024). Archived material is in the "Special Collections Branch" at the University of Victoria.