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Patterson House Book Launch with Jane Cawthorne
Jane Cawthorne presented Patterson House with special guest Susan Olding
Jane Cawthorne read from her debut novel, Patterson House, and talked with author Susan Olding about the book and writing.
About This Event
Jane Cawthorne introduces her new historical novel, Patterson House, and talks about the book and writing with fellow writer Susan Olding.
Alden Patterson, the last living member of a once-wealthy Toronto family, is haunted by the legacy of her grandfather, William Patterson, whose suicide taints the family name. She lives in the decaying Patterson House with Constance, a foundling, and John Hunt, an injured war veteran and the family’s former gardener. When Alden is reduced to taking in boarders, she thinks she has found a way to survive until the crash of 1929 leaves her truly desperate and one particular boarder threatens to destroy everything she thinks she wants.
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Jane Cawthorne
Both Jane Cawthorne and Susan Olding are writers living in Victoria, BC. Susan’s highly acclaimed books of essays include Pathologies and Big Reader. Jane‘s other recent work includes the anthology Impact: Women Writing After Concussion, co-edited with E. D. Morin, which recently won Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year from the Book Publishers Association of Alberta.
Susan Olding
“Part sweeping historical novel, part ghost story, part coming of age tale and part feminist rally cry, Patterson House is a novel that manages to do so much at once. I love the close examination of Toronto’s history and the reality of women’s limited options in the early 1900’s. This is a wonderful book.”
– Amy Stuart
author of Still Mine, Still Water, and Still Here