About the Author
JANE CHRISTMAS is the author of five bestselling memoirs, including What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim, about her mid-life pilgrimage on Spain’s famed Camino trail with fourteen other women, and the 2014 finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour And Then There Were Nuns, a chronicle of Jane’s discernment about entering religious life as an Anglican nun. She has been published in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, and Germany. Born and raised in Canada, she now lives in England. www.janechristmas.ca
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Open House
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COVER IMAGES: Shutterstock (background texture); Peter Chadwick/Trevillion Images (houses)
COVER DESIGN: Zeena Baybayan
FIRST EDITION
EPub Edition MARCH 2020 EPub ISBN: 978-1-4434-5877-1
Version 02072020
Print ISBN: 978-1-4434-5876-4
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Open house : a life in thirty-two moves / Jane Christmas.
Names: Christmas, Jane, 1954- author.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190168706 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190168714 |
ISBN 9781443458764 (softcover) | ISBN 9781443458771 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Christmas, Jane, 1954-—Homes and haunts. |
LCSH: Travel writers—Canada—Biography. |
LCSH: Dwellings—Remodeling—Canada. | LCSH: Moving, Household—Canada.
Classification: LCC TH4816 .C57 2020 | DDC 643.7092—dc23
LSC/H 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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