A STUDENT OF WEATHER
Elizabeth Hay
£9.99
'Hay exposes the beauty simmering in the heart of harsh settings with an evocative grace that brings to mind Annie Proulx'
Washington Post
In the drought-ravaged prairies of 1930s Sakatchewan, two sisters fall in love with the same man. Norma Joyce is small, dark and homely, but tough as prairie grass; Lucinda is fair and dutiful, and stands between Norma and the bitter anger of their father. To this land of extreme weather, where dust storms are so fierce they draw blood, comes a stranger - 23-year-old Maurice Dove. Eager for escape, Norma Joyce is bewitched by his stories of hurricaines that strip trees of leaves and bark, and whole civilisations lost to the weather. Out of this fsacination with the natural world is born an intense, incendiary love that will exert its disturbing force across more than thirty years.
Elizabeth Hay
is the author of two collections of short stories: Small Change and Crossing the Snow Lines and two works of non-fiction: The Only Snow in Havanna and Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York. Her stories have been widely anthologised and she has won numerous awards for her fiction. She lives in Ottawa.