Explore emotional landscapes and the turbulent inner lives of characters brought vividly to life in the novels of B.C. poet Gillian Wigmore and Kingston’s Helen Humphreys. Join host Sandra Ridley for a conversation on what defines a character and how we might value an “ordinary” life.
In a boom town dominated by a man-eating lake, Renee and Danny Chance start a new life in his grandfather's cabin. Renee struggles to keep her head above water until she is drawn into the orbit of two beautifully notorious bar-singer cousins, and all three women are called to test the bonds of blood and loyalty. A polyphonic fable riddled with tall tales, Glory , by acclaimed poet Gillian Wigmore, explores what it means to be a woman in north-central B.C. by flooding the shores of the human heart.
A seasoned writer stumbles across an obituary, and imagination is sparked. The brief words of memoriam describe a woman who was both extraordinary—eccentric, revered in her field, a renowned expert—but also utterly ordinary. How does a writer, intrigued by all that isn’t said, create a story, capture an unknowable woman and all the secret passions, choices and compromises that make up a life? In Machine Without Horses , Helen Humphreys explores the real life and the imagined internal life of the famously private salmon-fly dresser, Megan Boyd, a craftswoman who worked for sixty years out of a bare-bones cottage in a small village in the north of Scotland.
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Wigmore has accomplished something energizing in this novel: She has imbued enduring CanLit themes and points of reference with new life, within the context of a story that mines the psyches of modern women and places them against a rugged, storm-tossed backdrop.
Explore emotional landscapes and the turbulent inner lives of characters brought vividly to life in the novels of B.C. poet Gillian Wigmore and Kingston’s Helen Humphreys. Join host Sandra Ridley for a conversation on what defines a character and how we might value an “ordinary” life.
In a boom town dominated by a man-eating lake, Renee and Danny Chance start a new life in his grandfather's cabin. Renee struggles to keep her head above water until she is drawn into the orbit of two beautifully notorious bar-singer cousins, and all three women are called to test the bonds of blood and loyalty. A polyphonic fable riddled with tall tales, Glory , by acclaimed poet Gillian Wigmore, explores what it means to be a woman in north-central B.C. by flooding the shores of the human heart.
A seasoned writer stumbles across an obituary, and imagination is sparked. The brief words of memoriam describe a woman who was both extraordinary—eccentric, revered in her field, a renowned expert—but also utterly ordinary. How does a writer, intrigued by all that isn’t said, create a story, capture an unknowable woman and all the secret passions, choices and compromises that make up a life? In Machine Without Horses , Helen Humphreys explores the real life and the imagined internal life of the famously private salmon-fly dresser, Megan Boyd, a craftswoman who worked for sixty years out of a bare-bones cottage in a small village in the north of Scotland.
Books available for purchase at every event: Proceeds support our free children’s literacy programs.
