Rest Harrow

by Janice Kulyk Keefer

In this passionate novel, a professor retreats to the English countryside in an effort to gather material for a biography on local legend Virginia Woolf. But the trip has a dual purpose in that it will also serve Anna in fleeing her lover. But there is no solitude to be found here either, only a cast of local characters intent on making her one of them, and a landscape that fails to live up to Anna’s romantic expectations.

241 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1992

About the author

She is a Canadian novelist and poet.

Born in Toronto, she studied literature at universities in England and France. She teaches literature and theatre in the graduate studies department at the University Of Guelph.

Of Ukrainian heritage, Janice often writes about the experiences of first-generation Canadian children of immigrants. Her sister is the Canadian artist, Karen Kulyk.