In the Belly of the Sphinx BC oysters and English community members

and English community members

and the beginnings of his own sense of the supernatural

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In the Belly of the Sphinx BC oysters and English community membersGrant Budays new novel is an eccentric coming of age story that captures the late Victorian fascination with ancient Egypt, auras, and the afterlife. Smart, stubborn, and forthright Pearl Greyland Smith is nine years old when we first meet her, in 1882. She lives with her widowed mother, Florence, in Victorias James Bay neighbourhood. Pearls father was a Hussar who died in Afghanistan, or thats what Florence has always told Pearl. But when an Irish