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~ New Release - 2024
In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another profound journey; one of recollection and introspection . . .
A major work of imagination and self-exploration, In Winter I Get Up at Night explores, in luminous prose and with exhilarating nuance and depth, some of the grandest themes of the twentieth-century such as colonial expansion, scientific progress, and the sinister forces that seek to divide societies along racial and cultural lines.
"Urquhart takes us into a child’s confused imagination, an adult’s poignant nostalgia, and a landscape of menacing beauty in an incandescent novel that slowly reveals its secrets and connections in lyrical prose and a looping narrative." -- Charlotte Gray, historian and bestselling author of Sisters in the Wilderness, Gold Diggers, and The Massey Murder