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A library branch manager and the daughter of a veterinarian, Gillian Wigmore has published three books of poems: soft geography, winner of the ReLit Award; Dirt of Ages, shortlisted for the George Ryga Award; and Orient. In addition to Night Watch, she has written a novella, Grayling, and Glory, a novel. She lives in Prince George, BC.

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"It is no surprise that poet Wigmore's writing can be vivid and she
creates a sequence of fine prose poems in the chorus of voices that
punctuate the novel."--Canadian Literature"Stunning, raw prose and a fierce narrative that is irresistibly readable."--The Malahat Review"Wigmore
has accomplished something energizing in this novel: she has imbued
enduring CanLit themes and points of reference with new life, within the
context of a story that mines the psyches of modern women and places
them against a rugged, storm-tossed backdrop."--Quill & Quire"A great novella is a work of alchemy, and that's what we're treated to in Glory... The women in your life need this book, maybe almost as much as the men do. Buy it for them."--Book Addiction"When
faced with a choice between a life as a mother, where all the tomorrows
look just like yesterday, Renee chooses her new friend Glory, plunging
the reader into a twisting journey of love and survival. Sensitive,
taut, and observant, each voice in Wigmore's complex tapestry brings
this small town brilliantly to life."--Eden Robinson, author of The Trickster Trilogy"You don't need to know Sheila Watson's The Double Hook to admire Gillian Wigmore's novel, Glory,
but it's fascinating to note how thoroughly and distinctively - realism
embracing myth - she probes the doubleness that drives her forebear's
book. 'You can't catch the glory on a hook and hold onto it, ' says
Watson. 'When you fish for the glory you catch the darkness too.' Like
the novel named for her, Glory Stuart is wracked by extremes of love and
hate, bondage and freedom. She is 'like those fingers of God you get,
way out on the lake, when the cloud slits open a bit and the sun shines
through, ' but she is also 'a rock-hard, nasty piece of work, sometimes.'
She is a force of nature in a town dwarfed by nature, perched on the
edge of a man-eating lake that haunts the townsfolk 'like a bogeyman.'
Fort St. James, 'at the end of the known world' (northern British
Columbia), is 'quiet and deceiving, all its wounds bound up from sight
but flowing deadly and silent from unseen sores.' Into this ghost-ridden
community, stagnant but seething, come Danny and Renee Chance, recently
wed and new parents. He has an ancestral bond with the community; she
has none. Quickly, she finds herself in crisis. Should she get involved
with Glory, the charismatic siren? That way lies danger, but perhaps
also a better new beginning than the one she is failing -- or that is
failing her. As you'd expect from a poet so accomplished as Gillian
Wigmore, Glory is beautifully written, but it's not every poet
who knows how to shape a compelling story. Told through several core
characters supported by a chorus of community members, each with a clear
and distinct voice, Glory draws heat from a dynamic, primeval
wildness in both nature and humanity that can barely be grasped, as it
is grasped here, by art."--Stan Dragland"Gillian Wigmore's
women make hard choices, but she never shies away from the hurt, writing
with a one-two punch of empathy and fierceness that lead the reader
careening through a roller-coaster wilderness that is both geographic
and emotional. With Glory, Wigmore has written a novel shaped by
yearning: part punk rock, part old-time country ballad, it is as much a
love song to the landscape of Northern British Columbia as it is to the
people who live there."--Elisabeth de Mariaffi-- "Malahat Review"

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