Jane Urquhart
Birth date: June 21, 1949
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"The women of this family... were plagued by revenants. Men, landscapes, states of mind went away and came back again. There was always water involved, exaggerated youth or exaggerated age. Afterwards, there was absence."From that excerpt from the opening page of "Away", you might be simply bemused ...
Jane Urquhart’s historical novel, The Stone Carvers is about ordinary people dealing with the aftermaths of the Great War and the building of the Canadian War Memorial in Vimy, France. Set in the backdrop of Bavaria, to the countryside of Ontario, and then to France, the characters go to great lengt...
Jane Urquhart’s enchanting novel, Away, is a touching tale of love and abandonment that spans through four generations and covers two continents. Esther, an elderly woman narrates her great-grandmother Mary’s poor beginnings on the northern Irish coastline and her desperate move across the Atlantic ...
bookshelves: winter-20132014, tbr-busting-2014, nutty-nuut, published-2001, booker-longlist, e-book, lit-richer, historical-fiction, spring-2014, religion, roman-catholic, canada, art-forms Read from January 26 to March 01, 2014 Aaaw - most of the flisters who I look to for truthful reviews, re...
I loved all the art talk. It took a long time however, to pull the story together but I liked that it wasn't predictable.
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