Swamp Angel

Authors: Wilson, Ethel
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
BISAC/Subject: FIC044000, FIC004000, FIC090020
ISBN: 9781551994109, Related ISBNs: 0771089589, 077109129X, 0771094787, 1551994100, 9780771089589
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 240,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Walking out on a demoralizing second marriage, Maggie Lloyd leaves Vancouver to work at a fishing lodge in the interior of British Columbia. But the serenity of Maggie’s new surroundings is soon disturbed by the irrational jealousy of the lodge-keeper’s wife. Restoring her own broken spirit, Maggie must also become a healer to others. In this, she is supported by her eccentric friend, Nell Severance, whose pearl-handled revolver – the Swamp Angel – becomes Maggie’s ambiguous talisman and the novel’s symbolic core.

Ethel Wilson’s best-loved novel, Swamp Angel first appeared in 1954. It remains an astute and powerful study of one woman’s integrity and of the redemptive power of compassion.
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