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Elizabeth Murphy
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Inspiration for The Weather Diviner
If it hadn’t been for the opportunity to read my mother’s diary, this story would never have been told. Her first entry was as follows: Sitting at our table at Hill Crest. New Year’s Day. No snow. Had a dance at Hall tonight. My mother, eighteen-year-old Maisie, was at home at Branch, Newfoundland, on holiday from her clerk-stenographer position at the Fort Pepperrell base where she worked from 19
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An Imperfect Librarian
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"“The Weather Diviner” takes place during the turbulent year of 1942 in Newfoundland when the city of St. John’s has become a strategic transportation hub for the Allies in WW2 and is burgeoning with Canadian and U.S. soldiers. It follows Violet Morge"
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"This is a well-crafted tale of an intrepid young woman’s adventures in WWll St. John’s, Newfoundland, during the “invasion” of U.S. servicemen who used the island as a staging centre for its air and sea defences. It will resonate strongly with anyone"
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"I just loved it. The Weather Diviner is the kind of book that feels like stepping through your own front door. I didn’t expect it to feel so familiar, so grounding, but page by page it pulled me into a world that felt like home.
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The military setting was intriguing and interesting, especially in the story "Art of Camouflage." The tension is very high in the story. I also liked references throughout the book to Goose Bay, The Big Land (Labrador): taking frozen-stiff clothes off ...more |
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The version I read does not appear to be available on GRs. Mine was by Jean-Marcel Paquette (VLB Editeur) https://www.jeanmarcel.info/la-chanso... The poem was brought to life in a film by the same name and featuring Klaus Kinski. ...more |
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“Newfoundland is a country where wind and fire make vicious company, but truly the wind will always make the country one of the “Big Breath.” The wind never lets people off. It bends them double, sniffs at them like dogs tempted by a bone; it snatches at the fashionable hat and the new hair-do; and in pioneer days it is recorded that the settlers went out tied together. Once, it is told, that a wrestler came to Newfoundland, and he became so tormented by the wind, that he stopped in the street to fight it.”
― The Caribou Hut: Enriched edition. The Story of a Newfoundland Hostel
― The Caribou Hut: Enriched edition. The Story of a Newfoundland Hostel