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Owen Skye and his two brothers live in an unnamed rural Canadian town in the 1960s
The Secret Life of Owen Skye
What you need to know before your trail
Quiet, big-eared Owen and his smart older brother Andy live in a rural village with their parents and weird Uncle Lorne, a shy bachelor who sleeps on a cot in the basement and takes out his teeth at night. They make up the Skye family and live a nice and very unconventional life.
Owen falls in love with a girl named Sylvia but his attempts at wooing her fall flat. Thank goodness for life at home, where there’s a brother to talk to and plot adventures with. Yet the Skye boys somehow manage to turn every innocent plan into a full-scale ordeal.
And then there’s the deadly bog man…
Travel Guide
Alan Cumyn began writing for his own children when they were young, and whilst he lived in a broken-down farmhouse outside of Saint John, New Brunswick in the mid-1960s.
The unnamed town in the book could be anywhere really but it’s thought to be in Ontario or New Brunwick where the author himself lived.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Secret Life of Owen Skye
Author/Guide: Alan Cumyn Destination: New Brunswick
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