Marina Endicott: Online Chat Transcript
Read the transcript from our Book Buzz chat with Marina Endicott. It was a wonderful conversation.
Her latest novel, Close to Hugh, was released on May 26. It takes place over seven days in Peterborough, Ontario. Hugh Argylle is an art gallery owner in his fifties. His mother is in a hospice and Hugh doesn’t know how he’ll manage when she dies. On Monday, he falls off a ladder; later at a party, he uncharacteristically punches an insufferable actor friend of his surrogate brother and falls again–down a flight of stairs this time. Hugh finds himself tuning in to the suffering of those around him in a way that he hasn’t in the past. The people in his life include people his own age as well as contemporaries of his mother and high school students.
It’s a compelling look at age, ageing, relationships, life changes and art. The Toronto Star compared it to the works of Carol Shields.
Marina Endicott won'the Commonwealth Prize for Canada and the Caribbean in 2009 for Good to a Fault which was also on the Giller Prize shortlist. Open Arms was a finalist for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. The Little Shadows was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award. She also writes poetry, short stories and the screenplay for Vanishing Point.
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