Jane Urquhart

• Jun-1992
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The novel brings together three women from different centuries. One is Emily Brontë herself, who appears as a rather personable ghost. The second is a turn-of-the-century balloonist, Arianna Ether, who performed for her manager and lover Jeremy Jaco...

• Jun-1994
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A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family's complex and layered past. The narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity, and takes us from the harsh northern Irish coast in the 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse ...

• Oct-1997
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Austin Fraser's painting teacher had indoctrinated him with the view that unless something could be turned into art, it simply was not worth his time. And in this he included people. Austin certainly applied the principle to Sara Pengelly, who lived ...

• Sep-2000
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An undertaker's wife lives in the shadow of death at the foot of Niagara Falls in 1889, witnessing her husband's demise--along with those of many reckless adventurers--and finding love in a poet named Patrick...

• May-2002
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In 1867 a good-natured Bavarian priest, is sent by God and mad King Ludwig to the wilds of North America. Soon the backwoods are transformed into a parish and the settlers into a congregation, and Joseph Becker, a woodcarver, meets his future wife. S...

• Apr-2006
• / Literary
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An aging Andrew Woodman stumbles through a snowstorm, slowly losing his strength, his language, and his memories of the once-familiar island landscape around him. When Jerome, a young artist on a remote island retreat, discovers Andrew’s body froze...

• Sep-2010
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With stunning virtuosity, the stories in Jane Urquhart’s dazzling first book of fiction unearth universal truths as they reach across countries and eras. A woman runs away to a cottage in the English moors to escape a love affair; shards of glass r...

• May-2012
• / Literary
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Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, Jane Urquhart's stunning new novel weaves elements from the nineteenth-century past, in Ireland and Ontario, into a gradually unfolding contemporary story of events in the lives of the memb...

• Aug-2015
• / Historical
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Set mainly in a remote westerly tip of Ireland in the 1940s and '50s, this stunning new novel from one of Canada's bestselling authors is at once intimate and epic in scope. Tam, an Englishwoman, has been living in this harshly beautiful region si...

• Aug-2024
• / Literary
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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTELLER • Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • A Heather's Pick • A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year • One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books • One of the CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2024 ...