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In winter I get up at night : a novel / Jane Urquhart.

Urquhart, Jane, (author.).

Summary:

From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable life. 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 journey, one of recollection and introspection, and one that, through the course of Jane Urquharts brilliant new novel, which Emer narrates, will leave the reader forever changed. Moving as effortlessly through time as the drift of memory itself, In Winter I Get Up at Night brings Emer and her singular story to life. At the age of 11, she is terribly injured in an enormous prairie stormthe great wind that shifts her trajectory forever. As she recovers, separated from her family in a childrens ward, Emer gets to know her fellow patients, a memorable group including, among others, a child performer who stars in a travelling circus, the daughter of Dukhobor community, the son of a leftist Jewish farm collective. The children are tended to by three Nursing Sisters and two doctors, who the ever-imaginative Emer comes to call Doctor Angel and Doctor Carpenter. Emers tale grows outwards from that ward, reaching through time and space in a dreamlike fashion, recounting the stories of her mothers entanglement with a powerful yet mysterious teacher, her brothers dawning spirituality, which eventually leads him to the priesthood, the remarkable lives of the nuns who care for her, and the passionate yet distant love affair of Emer and an enigmatic man she calls Harp, after Harpocrates, a Hellenistic God of secrecy and silencea brilliant scientist whose great discovery has forever altered millions of lives around the world.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780771051999
  • Physical Description: 297 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : McClelland and Stewart, 2024.
Subject: Music teachers > Fiction.
Reminiscing > Fiction.
Saskatchewan > Fiction.
Topic Heading: Canadian author.

Available copies

  • 19 of 29 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 8 current holds with 29 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Smithers Public Library F URQ (Text) 35101011104440 Adult Fiction Volume hold Checked out 2025-03-11
100 Mile House Branch URQ (Text) 33923006693455 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Beaver Valley Public Library F URQ (Text) 35144000273487 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Castlegar Public Library FIC URQ (Text) 35146002385862 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Creston Public Library FIC URQ (Text)
Acquisition Type: New
35140100146813 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library F URQ (Text) DCL179109 Adult Fiction Volume hold Checked out 2025-04-03
Fort Nelson Public Library URQ (Text) 35246001106184 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fort St. James Public Library URQ (Text) 35196001038145 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fraser Lake Public Library AFHC FIC URQ (Text) 35195000377223 Main Floor - Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Gibsons Public Library FIC URQU (Text) 30886001137666 Adult Fiction Volume hold Checked out 2025-03-27


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