A poignant evocation of a small Saskatchewan town in the 60s, The Soft Eclipse follows six women, aged 16 to 76, through a day both strangely unique and satisfyingly "everyday" as they anticipate the coming eclipse of the sun.
Connie Gault is the author of two collections of short stories, several plays for stage and radio and the novel Euphoria, winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction and short-listed for the High Plains Fiction Award and the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book of Canada and the Caribbean.
A former prose editor of grain magazine, Gault has also edited books of fiction, taught many creative writing classes, and mentored emerging writers through the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Mentorship Program.