Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are "just the right size - fitting into a single, magical day." She is an expert at baking and eating fancy iced cakes, and her favorite mode of travel is "par avion." On windy days, she takes her sixteen cats out for an airing: Minky, Misty, Taffy, Purrsia, Pirate, Mustard, Moutarde, Hemdela, Earring, Grigorovitch, Clasby, Captain Captain, Captain Catkin, Captain Clothespin, Your Shyness and Sizzles. With the aid of her favorite tea party tablecloth as a makeshift balloon, Miss Petitfour and her charges fly over her village, having many little adventures along the way.

Récit d'une passion doublé d'une fresque historique plus grande que nature, Le tombeau d'hiver met au jour les liens qui unissent deux êtres, Jeanne et Avery, aux lieux qui les voient naître, aimer, changer et partir. D'Abou Simbel, dans le désert égyptien, aux villages engloutis d'Ontario en passant par Varsovie, qui ont tous été, d'une manière ou d'une autre, détruits puis reconstruits par l'homme, la romancière et poète Anne Michaels dessine un envoûtant labyrinthe où l'on entre comme dans un temple, une bibliothèque ou un jardin, et dont on sort transformé.

Engineer Avery Escher and his wife Jean live in Egypt as he works on rescuing the temple of Abu Simbel from the waters of the Aswan Dam, but after observing the displacement of Egyptians settlers and losing a child, their marriage seems to fall apart.

A young orphan smuggled out of Poland during World War II, poet Jakob Beer, comes to understand the extraordinary power of language to destroy, restore, and witness as he struggles to cope with both grief and the healing of memory.