Shelter : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307360311 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9780307360328 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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376 p. ; 22 cm. - Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, c2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Aug 11 |
Target Audience Note: | All Ages. |
Awards Note: | Finalist 2012 BC Book Prize - Adult Fiction. |
Search for related items by subject
Genre: | Domestic fiction. General. Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 23 of 23 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 23 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Creston Public Library | FIC GRE (Text) | 35140000962061 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Castlegar Public Library | FIC GRE (Text) | 35146001799048 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | F GRE (Text) | DCL136923 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Fernie Heritage Library | FIC GRE (Text) | 35136000281635 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Fort Nelson Public Library | FIC GRE (Text) | 15246000750408 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Hudson's Hope Public Library | FIC FIC GRE (Text) | BHH035525 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Kimberley Public Library | F GRE (Text) | 35137000032606 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Midway Public Library | FIC TRA(HC) GRE (Text) | 35143000208139 | Adult Hardcover Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Nakusp Public Library | FIC GRE (Text) | 35160000654492 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Nelson Public Library | F GRE (Text) | 3514830011875 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Frances Greenslade was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, and grew up with four sisters and one brother, playing among the grapes and orchards of the Niagara Peninsula. The family moved to Winnipeg when Frances was ten, and she would live there for the next fourteen years, attending Springfield Collegiate High School in Oakbank and then completing an English degree at the University of Winnipeg.
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After moving to Vancouver and briefly working for TV Guide, Frances decided to pursue writing as a career; she returned to school, this time the University of British Columbia, and completed her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing in 1992. She met her husband soon after, and together they moved to Regina.
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Having called four provinces home by this point, Frances began to wonder what the notion of home meant anymore, to migrant Canadians like her. Her first book, A Pilgrim in Ireland: A Quest for Home (published in 2002), was the result of Frances trying to figure out the answer to that question. The memoir, which won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-Fiction, tells of the physical and spiritual journey Frances undertook to seek out her familyâs roots in Ireland.
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By the Secret Ladder: A Motherâs Initiation, was published in 1997, a year after Frances gave birth to her son, and tells of Francesâs often dramatic experiences as a new mother. She writes with candour about what itâs really like for women to go through childbirth and take the leap into motherhood â with all of its lows and highs â in ways that authors of books on becoming a mother rarely do.
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In 2005 Frances and her family moved to Penticton, in the southern Okanagan, where her love of the B.C. landscape flourished and was a source of inspiration in writing Shelter, her first novel. As Frances has said, the freedom of writing fiction was eye-opening: âAs I began work on my novel, Shelter, I remember telling my editor, âThis is way easier. I can make things up.â Shelter is fiction but it draws on many of my own worst fears.â In addition to writing, Frances teaches English at Okanagan Collegeâs Penticton campus. She is currently working on her next book, which is set in rural Manitoba and Bombay in the 1970s, and is tentatively entitled Sing a Worried Song.