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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm just passing the word along about Margaret
Hollingsworth's new book. It looks really interesting. Please see the press
release below or visit the publisher's website at:</FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2> <A href="http://www.bluelakebooks.com">www.bluelakebooks.com</A>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rebecca<BR></DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><U>Be Quiet<BR></U>By Margaret
Hollingsworth</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>Be Quiet </EM>is a brilliant new novel by
award-winning playwright, Margaret<BR>Hollingsworth. Set in both Canada and
England, this multi-faceted <BR>complex story moves back and forth in time and
geography. The book is <BR>also permeated by the spirit of Emily Carr. Part of
the book concerns <BR>Carr's little known time in a sanitarium in England, where
she was <BR>treated for an illness that has many of the symptoms of what we
might <BR>today call fibromyalgia, though then it was deemed to be neurasthenia
<BR>or hysteria. A dubious female physician treats her using extremely
<BR>unorthodox means.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The three stories in the novel are overlapping
triangles. Kit, a <BR>35-year-old marginally successful actress goes to visit
the father she <BR>hasn't seen since she was a baby and discovers that he has a
new, young<BR>and pregnant wife, Ilona. Catherine, Kit's mother, is an artist
and <BR>professor trying to cope with retirement and two persistent suitors.
<BR>Ilona, owns a diary written by her great-great-aunt who was in
Brittany<BR>in 1911, during the period that Carr studied with Frances Hodgkins,
a<BR>New Zealand artist who came into prominence in England during the
<BR>thirties. Many of the events in the diary parallel those in the lives <BR>of
Kit, Catherine and Ilona.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Be Quiet's themes are timeless ones: creativity and
aging, sexuality, <BR>women artists dealing with domesticity and the problems of
being <BR>independent, and the universal desire to belong.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH has won many awards for her
internationally <BR>produced stage and radio plays, some of which are collected
in Willful<BR>Acts (1998) and Endangered Species (1988). She has published a
<BR>collection of stories "Smiling Under Water" (1989) as well as essays <BR>and
short stories in literary journals. She also writes for film and <BR>TV. She was
born in England and travelled widely before emigrating to <BR>Canada. She lives
in Vancouver.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ISBN 0-9730831-7-4<BR>6 x 9, 360 pp.<BR>$21.00,
softcover</FONT></DIV>
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