Margaret Hollingworth's "Be Quiet"

[Rebecca Burton]

Hello all

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: www.bluelakebooks.com 

Cheers,

Rebecca

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Be Quiet
By Margaret Hollingsworth

Be Quiet is a brilliant new novel by award-winning playwright, Margaret
Hollingsworth. Set in both Canada and England, this multi-faceted 
complex story moves back and forth in time and geography. The book is 
also permeated by the spirit of Emily Carr. Part of the book concerns 
Carr's little known time in a sanitarium in England, where she was 
treated for an illness that has many of the symptoms of what we might 
today call fibromyalgia, though then it was deemed to be neurasthenia 
or hysteria. A dubious female physician treats her using extremely 
unorthodox means.

The three stories in the novel are overlapping triangles. Kit, a 
35-year-old marginally successful actress goes to visit the father she 
hasn't seen since she was a baby and discovers that he has a new, young
and pregnant wife, Ilona. Catherine, Kit's mother, is an artist and 
professor trying to cope with retirement and two persistent suitors. 
Ilona, owns a diary written by her great-great-aunt who was in Brittany
in 1911, during the period that Carr studied with Frances Hodgkins, a
New Zealand artist who came into prominence in England during the 
thirties. Many of the events in the diary parallel those in the lives 
of Kit, Catherine and Ilona.

Be Quiet's themes are timeless ones: creativity and aging, sexuality, 
women artists dealing with domesticity and the problems of being 
independent, and the universal desire to belong.

MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH has won many awards for her internationally 
produced stage and radio plays, some of which are collected in Willful
Acts (1998) and Endangered Species (1988). She has published a 
collection of stories "Smiling Under Water" (1989) as well as essays 
and short stories in literary journals. She also writes for film and 
TV. She was born in England and travelled widely before emigrating to 
Canada. She lives in Vancouver.

ISBN 0-9730831-7-4
6 x 9, 360 pp.
$21.00, softcover


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