The Cry of the Loon - Christopher Morris - Bog

We all have them. Those moments when life gets too much and wish that we could run away. What if you did? Where would you go and what would you find when you got there? The Cry of the Loon is a tale of loss, loneliness, love and the quest to be loved. Set among the frozen mountains, forests and lakes of central Quebec it takes you to the heart of the relationship between man and nature. Like Henry Thoreau's Walden Pond Jack hopes to find a place where he can discover more about himself, find peace and maybe a new start. As he begins his search you will find yourself analysing your own place in the world and may be finding new paths. It is a journey of self discovery. Jack Clark is a man who needs a break from a failed relationship and mounting pressure in his TV production job in Boston. He escapes to a cabin in the woods near a small mountain town north of Montreal. What he finds is a small town gripped with rumour, murder and child abduction. Unfortunately he is drawn to the centre of the case by Annie; whose husband has mysteriously disappeared, and the Loon he rescues from a cold northern lake. The Loon and its struggle for survival is symbolic of the characters' journeys; both physical and metaphorical all mirrored through the bleakness and beauty of the North American landscape. If Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain) and Nicholas Evans (The Horse Whisperer) collaborated on a novel it would be The Cry of the Loon.