Song of the Eagle Book Review from The Daily Gleaner

Posted By: Anna Dyckow , on Thursday, 16 August 2007

Autobiography resonates with faith Song Of The Eagle (Trinity Publishing) Eagles cannot swim.  When one collided with an osprey and fell into Passamaquoddy Bay, it seemed doomed.  Fundy Isles fisher Ralph Cline saw this transpire, and turned his herring carrier around. He rescued the bird, and asked his daughter to nurse it back to health, releasing it back to the wild when its broken wing was mended. Cline's window, retired teacher and tourism operator Audrey J. Cline, uses this event as the pivot point of her autobiography Song Of The Eagle. The eagle image is obviously poignant to her.  The facts that an eagle perched in a tree by the cemetery when her late husband was buried, another eagle flew by on what she called "the worst day" of her grieving, and "eagles keep turning up" make this image central and powerful to her story. It is a personal memoir, reflecting heavily on the early years of her life as a child on Deer Island and the early years of her marriage spent on that island. It resonates with a personal, evangelical Christian faith that took root when the Lords Cove Disciples of Christ congregation was, in her words, "on e of the strongest in the nation" and she was baptized as a teenager. It is filled with vivid word pictures of that beautiful part of our province, and is a real and personal account of her own grieving journey after her husband's death. -reviewed by Wilfred Langmaid

 

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