The Invention of the World
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Then, Donal Keneally, an Irish giant who thought he could invent the world, led a band of faithful followers from rural Ireland to Vancouver Island in search of Eden. In the course of his search, he founded the Revelations Colony of Truth.
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Now, Maggie Kyle runs an extraordinary boarding house on the original site of the Colony, and she and her irrepressible boarders search out Keneally's story as a key to their own roots and even the possibility of love.
Originally published in 1977, The Invention of the Worldis Jack Hodgins' first novel.
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