"Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most beloved novelists has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver. As the daughter takes charge, and the writer takes notes, her mo...
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Hay, Elspeth
In the winter of 2008, as snow falls without interruption, an actor in a Beckett play blanks on her lines. Fleeing the theatre, she beats a retreat into her past and arrives at Snow Road Station, a barely discernible dot on the map of Ontario. The actor is Lulu Blake, in her sixt...
In 1975 Yellowknife, four employees of a small radio station embark on a canoe trip that takes them into the Arctic wilderness, following the 1927 route taken by ill-fated Englishman John Hornby, and find their relationships shifting.
"Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most beloved novelists has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver. As the daughter takes charge, and the writer takes notes, her mo...
A collection of lost souls find themselves working at the Yellowknife CBC radio station in the summer of 1975 amidst change which threatens the northern environment and the native way of life.
Set in Saskatchewan and the Ottawa Valley, this finely honed tale begins in 1929 with a small-town school teacher helping an underprivileged child learn to read -- all under the watchful eye of the school's domineering, enigmatic principal. From there, the story takes listeners o...
"A well-paced collection of linked stories about women's friendships has an extraordinarily intimate feel that's propelled by the reader's sense that he or she has either known or been the woman Hay portrays, the character Beth, who is the connecting thread. She and the author El...
About the tricky allure of movies and movie stars in our lives. In Ottawa in the 1990s, Harriet Browning, inflamed by the movies she was forbidden as a child, forms a Friday-night club with three cinephile friends.
Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and well-mannered schoolteacher with a temper that could be explosive. Elizabeth, their oldest daughter, was said to be a difficult and selfish child. Elizabeth always suspected...
Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for NonfictionFrom Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most beloved novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter.Jean and Gordon Hay were a colo...
Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin become friends and learn that they are witches with magical powers.
After the destruction of the Veil, Will, Irma, Taranee Cornelia and Hay Lin struggle to adjust to normal life. But evil is lurking in Heatherfield.
"In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada--including his wife, Ma...