Book of the Month–May 2014
The Find by Kathy Page
Anna Silowski, highly educated, driven and successful, works as a curator in a prestigious palaeontological museum; Scott Macleod dropped out of school, has a confused relationship with his Native roots, and an alcoholic father in tow.
After a day’s prospecting leads Anna to make an extraordinary discovery in a remote part of British Columbia, the tensions below the surface of her successful career are exposed. Anna has carried for years terrifying knowledge that she feels she must keep secret, and now is pushed toward breakdown. She finds herself unexpectedly dependent on Scott, and recruits him to help on the excavation of her find. Scott is soon way out of his depth, and the excavation itself teeters on the edge of disaster.
The Find is a compelling story about discovery, inheritance and fate, and a moving exploration of the possibilities that hide within a seemingly impossible relationship.
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Acknowledgements and Awards
2011: Relit Awards (Finalist)
Book Reviews
The Globe and Mail
Quill and Quire
About the Author
Kathy Page credits her father’s love of books and her mother’s habit of exaggeration as inspirations for her career. She began writing in childhood, entering and sometimes winning writing contests. After graduating from university with a degree in English Literature, she decided to make writing her career, supplementing her income with carpentry work. In 1986, she published her first novel Back in the First Person. Following completion of a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at East Anglia University, Page taught writing in the UK, Estonia and Finland. She took a break from writing in the mid-1990s and worked for a time as a psychotherapist but returned to writing with her fifth novel, The Story of My Face, longlisted for the Orange Prize.
In 2001, she and her family settled on an island in British Columbia where she continues to write.
Her latest book is Paradise & Elsewhere.
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