Audrey Thomas

• Sep-1979
• / General Fiction
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In a totalitarian state that alternately praises and persecutes artists, Elena, the flute-player, keeps alive the creative spirit of the artists who are her friends, offering herself sexually and emotionally to all...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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In Real Mothers, a collection of short stories, Audrey Thomas journeys to France, Greece and Africa; she also writes about Galiano Island, B.C., where she lived while these stories were taking shape. Real Mothers concerns itself with women who, in on...

• Sep-1987
• / General Fiction
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• May-1991
• / General Fiction
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A collection of thirteen stories includes tales of a young mother driven to an act of desperation at the thought of returning to Africa with her missionary husband, and a woman who provides an account of the events leading up to her own death...

• Jan-1992
• / Literary
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Â"Women are at last beginning to talk about their bodies, not only among themselves, but also in print. When I began writing Mrs. Blood Â... this was not the case. So many women have come up to me and said, Â'Yes, I’ve been through that too -- a m...

• Aug-2001
• / General Fiction
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In the summer of 1806, a young Orkney woman disguised herself as a man and signed on with the Hudson's Bay Company to travel to what was then called Rupert's Land. For a year and a half she hid her identity and her deception was revealed only when sh...

• May-2005
• / Historical
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Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, "Tattycoram" tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her career, Audrey Thom...