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Author of Bad Juliet
The award-winning, bestselling author of the Cardinal novels, Giles Blunt discusses his new work of literary fiction, Bad Juliet.
In Bad Juliet, recently jilted by his fiancée, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the tuberculosis patients at the Trudeau Sanitarium in upstate New York. There, in the icebound beauty of the Adirondack Mountains, he finds himself drawn to Sarah Ballard, a beautiful but enigmatic young woman, traumatized by her past aboard the ill-fated Lusitania. To rouse her out of her gloom, Paul encourages her to write a memoir. As Paul reads her words, it gradually becomes clear that Sarah’s memories are a tangle of truth and fiction that he can’t begin to unravel. And yet he cannot overcome his attraction to her. When a terrible relapse leaves Sarah worried that she has little time left, she begs Paul to be the one person in the world who will truly know her.
A Different Drummer Books will be on site with books for sale and signing after the talk.
Presented in partnership with Dundurn Press and A Different Drummer Books
Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay, Ontario, before studying English Literature at the University of Toronto. Author of the award-winning John Cardinal Mystery series, his first Cardinal novel, Forty Words for Sorrow, won the British Crime Writers Silver Dagger award, and the second, The Delicate Storm, won the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis award for best novel, as did the latest, Until the Night. He has been twice longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC award.
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