Tell It True
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Dr. Emmaline Cartwright is about to retire as a professor of history from an Eastern Ontario University. Though she’s led a successful career, she lingers in regret with an unfulfilled dream she’s held for herself for many years. Her sense of restlessness feels like an inner wound.
Emmaline’s yearnings are unexpectedly fulfilled when she discovers pages of a book written by Kate Robinson, a Loyalist woman from the eighteenth century. Within these pages, Kate tells of leaving America after the revolution to travel to a country that would eventually become Canada. Her love of both writing and her children sustains her when a betrayal causes her to journey back to the land she’d left behind.
Kate’s story becomes Emmaline’s obsession—and ultimately, her way forward. Each woman forges her own respective path, facing barriers and misfortunes. Though Emmaline and Kate occupy different eras, their stories are colored by similar hopes, fears, dreams, and tenacity.
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Keywords Folklore, Mermaids, New Release, Seafaring tales, Tall tales
About the Author
Milree Latimer is an author of Historical Fiction inspired by a life-long love of History. She launched into her writing career upon retirement as a teacher, a Principal and a Professor of Education. She lives in Oakville ON with her cat Justice
As the story jumps from century to century we are caught up in the personal journeys of two women whose lives become strangely connected. For each there is a quest for a meaning in life that each reader will reflect upon in their own daily decisions. This is a great read!
About the Narrator(s)
Melanie is an English actor and voice artist working on stage, TV, radio and podcasts. She is the co-founder of Tannie Productions, Next Left and one of the Sketch Up gang. You can find her on Spotlight and Audible. She is a proud member of Equity.
She studied drama at Manchester Metropolitan University alongside visual arts in her 20s, going on to work variously in theatre and event design, film and theatre production and exhibition, returning as an actor and VO to the stage and studio in the early 2010s.
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A young Irish sailor cast adrift in the sea. A mermaid princess and Irish luck save him from drowning. This adventurous tale owes its inspiration to stories Mike Mirabella heard as a little boy. His sizeable Italian clan swapped such stories during family dinners at the kitchen table.
“My grandpa and uncles would tell tales of fishing the waters off the coast of California and up through the inland passages of Alaska. I recall Grandpa Angelo telling of the scary times, when he was a cabin boy of 12 and was captured by pirates while working on the tall ships”.
And then there was the never-ending argument between my grandpa and Uncle Cam: “What was that strange creature they caught off the coast of Alaska; a mermaid or a merman?” I was (and still am) that wee lad in our story, sitting wide-eyed, half-believing, yet never tiring of hearing those wonder-filled stories told by those salty, old jacks.”
Using the rhyming style of a pirate in an Irish pub, our sailor spins his yarn about seeing the slap of a mermaid’s tail during a mighty storm. “On the Luck of an Irish Sailor” is a beautiful tale of adventure on the high seas. In a story that’s been passed down for generations, author Mike Mirabella takes us on a magical experience deep beneath the ocean.
Could it have happened? Did it happen? Folklore – that’s the feeling sparked by the illustrations by illustrator Amy O’Hanlon. She uses hues of blues, grays, and browns to depict the fierce storm accurately. On other pages, O’Hanlon uses beige and brown tones to create the illusion of an older picture book-like classic story that’s been around for years. Enjoy the bonus song sheets and sing along with this ‘mostly’ true story of adventure and redemption, in “On the Luck of an Irish Sailor.”
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