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Elinor Florence
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I can follow my heart, work at my own pace, and answer to nobody.
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Finding Flora
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Wildwood
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Bird's Eye View
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My Favourite Veterans: True Stories of World War Two's Hometown Heroes
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Grasslands
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The Woman With the X-Ray Eyes
My wartime novel Bird’s Eye View is fact-based fiction about a prairie farm girl named Rose who becomes an aerial photo interpreter, inspired in part by the brilliant, beautiful Constance Babington Smith.
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Amuse Bouche: Russell Quant Mystery #1 (A Russell Quant Mystery, #1)
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| After reading this first book in the Russell Quant mystery series, I bought the whole series and look forward to reading them all. Author Anthony Bidulka has come up with such an interesting premise, a detective who is not only gay but living his bes ...more | |
“I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing.”
― Bird's Eye View
― Bird's Eye View
“I set one cup of milk into a pan of water and heated it to boiling. Bridget stirred the dry ingredients together five times, as the recipe directed: one cup flour, one cup sugar, three teaspoons baking powder and a pinch of salt. She sifted so merrily that a cloud of white flour circled her curly dark head like a halo. Into the dry ingredients I poured the hot milk, then folded in two stiff egg whites before pouring the batter into a pan and popping it into a moderate oven. When it had risen satisfactorily and a broom straw inserted into the centre came out clean,”
― Wildwood
― Wildwood
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“Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“The fashion has been in literary fiction for the depressing ending, and for more or less passive characters who have terrible things happen to them . . . So why not have a happy ending? Is there a law?”
― News of the World
― News of the World
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Peggy wrote: "Elinor,Really looking forward to your new novel coming out in 2018! Happy reading,
Peggy Zsutty"
Thanks so much, Peggy!
Elinor,Really looking forward to your new novel coming out in 2018! Happy reading,
Peggy Zsutty