My Face in the Light

✍ Scribed by Martha Schabas

• Book ID: 112050810
• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 827 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780735277649

✦ Synopsis

**NAMED A "MOST ANTICIPATED" BOOK BY THE CBC AND THE GLOBE AND MAIL

" My mother is an artist and I am a liar. Or, if I scratch the surface, my mother is a sick woman and I am an actress . . ."**

Justine feels uneasy in her marriage, her theatre career and her relationship with her estranged mother, a famous painter. An intuitive and uncanny mimic, distinguished by a pronounced scar across her forehead (the result of a childhood accident), Justine has made acting the centre of her life since she was a teenager, but lately her outwardly charmed life in Toronto has begun to ring false. After a disastrous audition in London, England, a chance encounter with a stranger leads to an unorthodox business proposition that would allow Justine to abandon the world she knows indefinitely. As the complications and contradictions of leaving a life behind swell to the point of crisis, Justine must confront the...