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Jane Bow

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The daughter of Canadian diplomats, Jane Bow grew up in Canada, in New York City during Senator Joseph McCarthy’s ‘Better Dead Than Red,’ campaign in the early 1950s, in populist Generalissimo Franco’s fascist Spain, in England where she attended a boarding school that could have come out of a Dickens novel, and in Cold War Prague.

Returning to Canada, she became a journalist, covering how our legal system works in Ontario’s remote northern Indigenous communities, flying into Mexico’s Chiapas rainforest to write the story of a Canadian woman who had married the son of a Lacandon tribe’s chief. Then Jane found love. And fiction.

She has raised two children with her husband, with whom she now lives, loves and drinks wine in Victoria, B.C.

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Good Morning Canada, who are you?

When three invitations to present my new novel, Cally's Way , arrived from Edmonton, my husband and I packed the trunk of our second-hand Volvo with books and hit the road.

Poster at Royal Glenora Club, EdmontonCanada today is very different from the country I knew growing up as the daughter of diplomats. Then, we were respected across the world as a thriving democracy and an international p Read more of this blog post »
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Published on October 09, 2014 14:48
Average rating: 3.71 · 45 ratings · 13 reviews · 7 distinct works
Cally's Way

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Homeless

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The Oak Island Affair

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Dead and Living: A Novel

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The Angels’ Share: A Novel

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