![]() ![]() There were plenty of photos of the place because even 100 years ago it was attracting all sorts of wealthy tourists, Adamson says. Much of Jack’s story takes place in what was Laggan, Alta., and is now Lake Louise. ![]() ![]() She was familiar with that world and, even then, would be able to imagine herself in the story of Huck Finn, or as Jim Hawkins in “Treasure Island.” She recounts that, when she and her brother were little, their father would read boys’ adventure stories aloud. She spoke to men she knew about what they remember. “And one of them, of course, was I am not nor ever will be a teenage boy.” “There were several things that I took on in writing this book that made me a little bit nervous,” she says. “There’s a lot of father-son stuff in this book,” Adamson says, referring to other relationships including one based on a real-life escaped prisoner of war.Īt first, Adamson, says, she wrote the story with the child as a girl. His mother is dead, his father has left him with a local nun in town, away from the family cabin in the woods he’d grown up in, while he goes out to steal enough money to secure his son’s future. “Ridgerunner” doesn’t follow exactly from the end of “The Outlander.” When Jack, Mary and Moreland’s son, arrives at the outset of the book, he’s already 12. It wasn’t about how they raised him but about whom they raised. She was sure that person would be calm, and relatively grounded. ![]()
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