Elizabeth Hay
Birth date: October 22, 1951
Elizabeth Hay's Books
A Student of Weather was today's choice read to recover from travel, jet lag, and the unpacking and laundry tasks that come with it. I had high hopes for the novel: It's set during the 1930s in depression-hit dust bowls of Saskatchewan and the New York of the 1960s, and it's by a Canadian author....
The dark cruel winter and breezy white nights of Canada's north (specifically Yellowknife, N.W.T. and the barren landscape around Great Slave Lake) pervade this novel of the 1970s. All of the main characters are employed by a radio station (a public one, of course), and all of them bring previous se...
This book is filled with two things: nothing and dead animals.What a waste of time!!
For a book about the horrible murder of one young girl, an attack on another, stalking, obsession, and numerous affairs and broken marriages, there's surprisingly little urgency. The whole thing felt very detached from events that I would expect to feel compelling, but from which the narrative kept ...
I really enjoyed this book. It was kind of summed up near the end (no spoilers) when the narrator says she started writing about Parley, which lead to Connie, which lead to Michael and the rest of the people she wrote about.This book covers a whole variety of things, conquering ones fears, hopeless...
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