![]() ![]() ![]() Although he decides to quit the military and care for his niece, he is so busy getting into Knocking around in the Navy has not exactly prepared Uncle Jack for parenthood (his idea of supper is four TV dinners - one for Primrose and three for himself). Uncle, whom the Coal Harbour town council tracks down and appoints as her guardian for want of someone better. Leaving the fate of their daughter, 11-year-old Primrose Squarp, in the hands of a dubious cast of characters in Polly Horvath's new novel, ''Everything on a Waffle.'' There's Miss Perfidy,Īn old baby sitter who smells of mothballs and is losing her marbles Miss Honeycut, a tiresome school guidance counselor who talks exclusively about herself and her travels and Primrose's strapping, happy-go-lucky ![]() A fisherman is late bringing in his boat, and his wife rushes out in a skiff to find him. Typhoon off the coast of British Columbia. ![]()
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