In novels such as The Stone Carvers, Away and the Governor General’s Literary Award-winning The Underpainter, Jane Urquhart long ago cemented her status as a master chronicler of Canada’s past, people and landscapes. Her newest novel, a decade in the making, reinforces that status. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * In novels such as The Stone Carvers, Away and the Governor General’s Literary Award-winning The Underpainter, Jane Urquhart long ago cemented her status as a master chronicler of Canada’s past, people and landscapes.
Her newest novel, a decade in the making, reinforces that status. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? In novels such as The Stone Carvers, Away and the Governor General’s Literary Award-winning The Underpainter, Jane Urquhart long ago cemented her status as a master chronicler of Canada’s past, people and landscapes. Her newest novel, a decade in the making, reinforces that status.
In Winter I Get Up at Night is a beautiful, evocative and moving tale of memory and manipulation, family, friendship, trauma and acceptance. The tale is told by Emer, a middle-aged itinerant music teacher living by herself in rural Saskatchewan. Driving alone each day on often-precarious winter roads to get to her small, isolated school houses, Emer is beset by memories of her childhood.
That iconic childhood — with a loving father, a distracted mother and a devoted older b.