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“A
wonder to be cherished: a wise, beautiful and deeply felt
novel that reminds us all that it’s never too late to fall
in love.” – Chris Bohjalian, author of Midwives
Gail Anderson-Dargatz's accomplished second novel explores
the nature of relationships through the engaging heroine
Augusta Olsen, whose quest for love and independence spans
a lifetime. Set in the Shuswap region in the interior of
British Columbia, the book is saturated with bee lore, rich
domestic detail, wondrous imagery culled from rural kitchens
and gardens, and shining insights into family and friendship.
At its heart are the life, death, and resurrection of an
extraordinary marriage.
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At
the annual May Ball, a jubilant celebration marking the
end of examinations at Cambridge, private investigator Laura
Principal is hired to provide security. Then, somewhere
between the dancing and the fireworks, a student disappears.
Katie Arkwright wore white, a vision of purity. But when
Laura starts probing into the missing woman's life, she
finds that Katie concealed a dark side. The deeper Laura
searches into a tangled past, the more tension mounts in
every corner of Cambridge--where someone waits, coiled to
strike. And strike again.
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AUTHOR
BIOGRAPHY
Gail Anderson-Dargatz grew up in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, and
has lived with her husband on farms in snowy Alberta and in the
temperate rain forest of Vancouver Island. Her mother, who also
wrote, instilled literary confidence in Gail, so that by the age
of eighteen, she knew she wanted to be the next Margaret Laurence,
writing about Canadian farming women. “Laurence's interest in them
made me feel that their and my experience was important.” In her
early twenties, the future author got a job as a reporter for the
Salmon Arm Observer, but continued to enter her fiction in competitions.
One submission caught the attention of the writer Jack Hodgins,
who encouraged her to enrol in his course at the University of Victoria.
She graduated from there with a B.A. in creative writing.
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