In the Deep Dark

Marina Endicott and Anna Porter

8:00pm

Thursday, September 21, 2023

60 mins

Paranoia and sorrow, loneliness and exhaustion lie in the shadows of two new stories from seasoned and celebrated Canadian writers Marina Endicott and Anna Porter. In both novels, shadows from the past and pain from the present haunt the women at the centre of two stories rife with suspense, anxiety and revelation.

Endicott’s The Observer chronicles the downward spiral of an editor and her constable husband as they slowly settle into a new life in a small, tight knit community set in its ways. In Porter’s Gull Island, an estranged daughter sifts through her family’s murky past and dusty memories in their dilapidated cottage on a remote island, surrounded by the whispers of something sinister.

Moderated by Emily Donaldson.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

How to attend

$19.99

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$249.99

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Moderated by Emily Donaldson.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott's much-celebrated novels include Good to a Fault, The Little Shadows, Close to Hugh and The Difference. Endicott lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Read more about Marina Endicott

Anna Porter

Anna Porter is the award-winning author of 10 books, both fiction and non-fiction, most recently Deceptions and In Other Words: How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time. Kasztner’s Train won the 2007 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and Ghosts of Europe won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. She cofounded Key Porter Books, an influential publishing house she ran for more than twenty years. In addition, she writes book reviews, opinion pieces and stuff. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has received the Order of Ontario.