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Susan Swan\u2019s newest classic, The Western Light, is a prequel to The Wives of Bath. The story pulls us into the life of young Mouse Bradford, torn between love for her father and the charismatic asylum inmate John Pilkie, an ex Red Wings hockey player, serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife and baby girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set in Madoc\u2019s Landing, a fictional Ontario town on Georgian Bay, The Western Light \u201cweaves in details of the history of the Ontario oil boomtown Petrolia, hockey mania, bootlegging taxi drivers, and debates over psychiatry and universal health care. [Swan\u2019s] poetic descriptions of Ontario\u2019s harsh winter weather and adept use of colloquial speech are particularly vivid, and help bring the world of the novel to vibrant life.\u201d \u2014 Sarah Greene, Quill & Quire, October 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[A] vivid evocation of life in the 50s and its essential signifiers: the clothes, the hair, the telephone party lines and the all-out hate-on between fans of the Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs.\u201d \u2014 Susan G. Cole, NOW Magazine, August 23, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher: Cormoront Books<\/a>
Shortlisted, 2013 OLA Evergreen Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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