The
Hatbox Letters
Beth Powning's new novel
is out in bookstores across Canada now!
In this beautiful and deeply moving novel,
a young widow struggles to come to terms with her solitary
life in the rambling Victorian house she shared until recently
with her husband and children in semi-rural New Brunswick.
It is in this house, surrounded by heirloom gardens and
the gentle sounds of a river, that Kate Harding, 52, faces
her second winter since the untimely death of her husband.
Her children, now grown, are living away, and Kate is truly
on her own. In her living room are several hatboxes filled
with letters and other ghostly ephemera, recently brought
by her sister from the attic of their grandparents’
18th-century Connecticut house. Their sweet mustiness tinges
the air and makes Kate dream of her childhood and of her
beloved grandparents. She remembers the sense of permanence
and refuge that she felt in their apple-scented world, as
well as, more recently, with her husband. As she begins
to read the hatbox letters, she discovers that what to a
child seemed a serene and blissful marriage was in fact
founded on a tragic event. As Kate’s eyes clear to
the truth of the past, a new tragedy unfolds, and her own
house, filled with the shared detritus of marriage and motherhood,
becomes the refuge where Kate can connect the strands of
her unravelled life. In The Hatbox Letters — which
is both sad and exhilarating, touching and illuminating
— Beth Powning offers readers an unforgettable story
of love, grief and renewal, both past and present, as well
as her extraordinary perceptions of the natural world.
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Published by Knopf.
More about The Hatbox Letters
Here are links to The Hatbox Letters at Chapters
and Amazon.ca
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Northern
Wild
Best Contemporary
Nature Writing
Greystone Books, 2001
Includes an essay
by Beth Powning |
When
the Wild Comes Leaping Up
Personal Encounters
with Nature
Edited by David Suzuki
Greystone Books Fall 2002
An essay by Beth Powning appears in this
collection along with other award winning writers from the
United States, Canada, the UK and Austrailia including Timothy
Findley, Bill McGibbon, Margaret Atwood, Sharon Butala and
David Suzuki.
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To order, click on title below:
Seeds
of Another Summer: Finding the Spirit of Home in Nature
by Beth Powning
Blueberry barrens
Ordering is pretty easy. You can
cancel the process at any point without any obligation.
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To read more about Seeds of Another
Summer: Finding the Spirit of Home in Nature or the
US edition Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life click
here.
To order the softcover Random House/Sierra
Club version, click on title below:
from Amazon.com (USA)
Home:
Chronicle of a North Country Life
from Chapters (Canada)
Home:
Chronicle of a North Country Life
by Beth Powning
If you are interested in buying the hardcover  .
Peter Powning: Elemental Clay and Glass
curated by Gloria Hickey
to order $17.95 plus postage |
