![]() ![]() We chatted about why it took 10 years to write her book, Marianne Wiggins, Canadian writers, and the Toronto literary scene. ![]() Gil Adamson and I spoke last year around the time of the American publication of her novel. Along the way we also meet an ensemble of wonderful characters-among them William Moreland, The Ridgerunner-against a setting of hardship, deprivation, and struggle for survival, and ultimately the possibilities for Mary’s salvation. Bolton’s flight takes her into the snowbound Canadian Rockies of Alberta where she recounts the details that led her to her homicidal act. Her much-lauded first novel The Outlander, set in 1903, follows young Mary Bolton as she flees her dead husband’s sadistic twin brothers, who are seeking to avenge her murder of their sibling. Canadian writer Gil Adamson previously has published two collections of poetry, Primitive and Ashland, and a book of linked short stories, Help Me, Jacques Cousteau. ![]()
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