The men and women in these stories, and perhaps most of all the children, make their own sense of a world where &quotThere are forces at play so simple, natural, and accidental that nobody can figure them out and see them coming.&quot It is a world, too, in which &quotthere’s lots more sorrow flying around people’s heads than there is joy.&quot That sorrow may be heartbreaking, occasionally it is horrific; but the reader is constantly reminded, with the quiet, clear-eyed and sometimes mischievous irony of Harriet Richards’ voice, that in this world and – in the least likely places – we may entertain angels unawares.

Harriet Richards has published two books of fiction: The Lavender Child was nominated for the Fiction Award and won First Book Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards 1998; Waiting for the Piano Tuner To Die was nominated for the Saskatchewan Book Award Book of the Year in 2003. Her fiction has been featured on CBC Radio, and published in literary journals in Canada and Wales. She lives in Saskatoon.

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