WINNER OF THE 2018 ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 2019 CITY OF VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE
A 2018 KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018
A TORONTO STAR TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
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A QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOK OF 2018
Born between the wars on a working-class London street, Harry Miles wins a scholarship and a chance to escape his station, but discovers instead that poetry is what offers him real direction. While searching for more of it he meets Evelyn Hill on the steps of Battersea Library. The two fall in love as the world prepares once again for war, but their capacity to care for each other over the ensuing decades becomes increasingly tested.
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Kathy Page’s works include Frankie Styne and the Silver Man; Alphabet, a Governor General’s Award finalist in 2005; and The Story of My Face, long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002. Two of her books, Paradise & Elsewhere, 2014, and The Two of Us, 2016, were nominated for the Giller Prize. Born in the UK, she moved to the West Coast of Canada with her family in 2001, and now divides her time between writing and teaching at Vancouver Island University.
Praise for Dear Evelyn
“A smartly written portrait of a marriage that is true to life, has depth and detail, and is sometimes sweet and sometimes painful...the characters linger long afterwards and are likely to leave readers with either a tear in their eye or a lump in the throat.” ―Winnipeg Free Press
“The detail, the nuance, and the vitality of the scenes, while disconcerting, is also supremely detailed but never overwhelming with pages of minutia...Harry and Evelyn come together for an instant, repel one another over this or that, strive to find their better selves and their compassion and their once rich love; and then, with a harsh word or passing mood, they’re back to marital warfare. It’s a heartbreaking depiction, if only because it’s so enduring: these two are bound by family, by obligation, by history, and even by a steady if off-kilter and declining love.” ―Vancouver Sun
“Page charts the emotional shifts that take place over the course of their marriage, from first flush of love to old age, with subtlety and sensitivity.” ―Booklist
“Though a familiar tale, it’s sharply drawn and told with an alertness to cliche ...[T]he concluding scenes, while sadly inevitable, are quietly devastating. ” ―Daily Mail Online
“I know of no contemporary writer who deals so convincingly with love. Page consistently dramatizes the ways in which the feelings of intimate couples are puzzling mixtures of hope, lust, genuine caring, resentment, politics, and much else...ambitious and profoundly resonant.” ―Ormsby Review
“Dear Evelyn has a wonderful, effortless sweep...Page is able to contain a century; two wars; two fully realized, flawed and complicated people; a rich and tumultuous marriage; so much love; and the pride, rage and resentment that keeps so much from ever being properly expressed.” ―Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This
“[Page] has flown largely under the radar of publishing journalism while also writing damned good books...Page is a magician at evoking a sense of past-ness, and her characterisation is extraordinarily skillful and tender: both Evelyn and her husband Harry can be extremely difficult, but the reader understands and feels for them both. Exceptional work.” ―Elle Thinks
“A beautifully written story about a long marriage with a heart-tugging ending.” ―Literary Hoarders
“A richly textured story that feels authentic to each period, without ever getting bogged down in too many details or historical facts ... Relayed with compassion, and incisive writing.” ―Gulf Islands Driftwood
“A novel that will fill your heart, and break it, too.” ―The Parry Sound
Praise for Kathy Page
"A vivid portrayal...mesmerizing. [Page] writes with compassion, tenderness and a deep intelligence." ―Prairie Fire
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A portrait of a turbulent and beautiful seventy-year-long marriage forged during the onset of World War II.Born in the 1920s on a working-class London street, Harry Miles wins a scholarship and grows into adulthood as a sensitive man, torn between his love for poetry and the immediate demands of the world around him. When he marries the magnetic and demanding Evelyn amongst the outbreak of war, his capacity to love is increasingly testedup to and beyond when she abandons him on the cusp of death.An unconventional love story, harrowing and deeply tender, Dear Evelyn studies two people who permanently shape each other over a shared lifetime. The story of a seventy-year wartime marriage - the excruciating highs and beautiful lows of a shared life story. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781771962094