![]() Set in Ottawa in the 1990s, it is the quixotic tale of tall, thin Harriet Browning, inflamed by the movies she was deprived of as a child. A triumphant novel.’ Newsday ‘ A novel with passionate, urgent grace.’ Boston Globe ‘Beautiful and excited in every way in character, and theme, setting Elizabeth Hay firmly in the company of such other writers as Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields.’ New Orleans Times Picayuneįrom the award winning author of A Student of Weather, a funny, sad eyed novel about a woman caught between real love and movie love and real love doesn’t stand a chance. An unsentimental testament to resilience and mettle… In this gorgeous novel, Elizabeth Hay lays bare the lasting imprint on the human heart of physical landscape, family rivalries, and first love. A Student of Weather traces their rivalry over decades to the century’s end. Norma Joyce Hardy is the dark and lonely girl whose boldness and cunning prove so seductive against her vivid, tricky personality, the beautiful and saintly Lucinda can barely hold her own. ![]() During the worst of the prairie dust bowl of the 1930’s, a young man appears out of a blizzard, and two sisters’ lives are changed forever. A brilliant and wonderfully reviewed first novel: the story of two sisters and the man who enters both their lives. ![]()
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