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Elinor Florence

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in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Historical Fiction, History, Contemporary

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My first historical novel Bird's Eye View is about a young woman who joins the air force in World War Two and becomes an aerial photographic interpreter. Published by Dundurn Press in Toronto, the novel became a Canadian bestseller in 2016.
My second novel Wildwood is about a single mother from the big city who must fulfill the conditions of her inheritance by living for one year in an abandoned, off-the-grid farmhouse in the Peace River area of northern Alberta. She is inspired by the journal written by her great-aunt, the farm's original homesteader.
I grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan and had a long career in journalism, writing for newspapers and magazines including Reader’s Digest. I even published my own newspaper before turning to fict ...more

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	Wildwood 4.27 avg rating — 555 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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No matter how old you are, it's time to tell your own story, not only for your own children and grandchildren, but for the historians of the future. Here are some tips to help you get started – and if you have an elderly relative, I've included some advice about how to preserve their memories as well. Read more of this blog post »

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Another charming tale from O. Douglas about Scottish village life, complete with characters who speak with a heavy accent (sometimes difficult to read) and lots of literary references which are somewhat dated now, 99 years after the book was written! ...more
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Elinor made a comment in the group CanadianContent — May 2023 topic " I'm late to the party with Five Little Indians and I confess that I postponed reading it because I was dreading this story about residential school su ...more "
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I purchased this book some time before starting to read it, as I was dreading this story about five residential school survivors. But once I started reading it, I couldn't stop. It concerns five adults who as children endured years of abuse at a Brit ...more
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This was a tough book to review because there were a lot of subtleties in it which apparently went straight over my literal-minded head. It wasn’t until I chatted with the author, a personal friend, that I understood some of the clues that I missed. ...more
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I should have stopped reading after 50 pages, because I didn't enjoy this one. This novel concerns a group of elderly British cousins on their way to a funeral, reminiscing about the heady days of their youth during the Second World War. It appears t ...more
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I love novels about pioneers, especially women, so I jumped on this one and actually pre-ordered it. Apparently I didn't read the description very carefully, because although it is set in Montana in the days of homesteading, it falls into the horror ...more
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I love novels about pioneers, especially women, so I jumped on this one and actually pre-ordered it. Apparently I didn't read the description very carefully, because although it is set in Montana in the days of homesteading, it falls into the horror ...more
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“I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing.”
― Elinor Florence, Bird's Eye View

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“No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.”
― Elinor Florence

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“When I see a woman smoking, I think ‘There’s a fire at one end and a fool at the other!”
― Elinor Florence, Wildwood

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“Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Blue Castle

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“Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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“The fashion has been in literary fiction for the depressing ending, and for more or less passive characters who have terrible things happen to them . . . So why not have a happy ending? Is there a law?”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

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