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Foxglove

by Robert E.L. Trowbridge

266 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-3017; ISBN 1-4120-8019-3; US$23.61, C$27.15, EUR19.39, £13.58

Middle age Vancouver couple buys and restores equestrian estate, realizing thirty year dream. Flashbacks about their lives and growth and their new life where 4 movies yearly are shot on their 17 acre property.

About the Book

Foxglove is a true account of a Canadian boomer couple who collide headlong with their dream of owning Foxglove Farm. A soulful and humorous take on relationships in general and marriage in particular; a four decade love story of a couple with the chemistry (and the thirst) of Nick and Nora Charles.

About the Author

Robert E L Trowbridge is the President of a national insurance firm and a two time qualifier to that industry's Top of the Table. He has served on the Boards of The Vancouver Opera, The Terminal City Club and The Vancouver Cantata Singers. He has been an active member of the Shaughnessy Golf Club for 17 years and he and his wife Judy have four children, a new grandson and another grandchild on his or her way. They divide their time between Foxglove Farm near Vancouver and their Yorkville brownstone in Toronto.

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