Righting Old Wrongs

Elizabeth Hay and Joan Thomas

1:30pm

Sunday, October 1, 2023

60 mins

Award-winning writers Elizabeth Hay and Joan Thomas come together to discuss the power of memory, learning to let go and what happens when friends turn into enemies.

In Elizabeth Hay’s Snow Road Station, two women confront the repercussions of past decisions and the realities of aging as the world spins madly on around them. Meanwhile, in Wild Hope by Joan Thomas, when Isla’s husband Jake disappears, she’s left untangling the threads of Jake’s complicated past.

Two of Canada’s master storytellers take on the timeless question of what we’ll do when the past comes back to haunt us and who we become in the aftermath.

Moderated by Janet Somerville.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

How to attend

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Award-winning writers Elizabeth Hay and Joan Thomas come together to discuss the power of memory, learning to let go and what happens when friends turn into enemies.

Two of Canada’s master storytellers take on the timeless question of what we’ll do when the past comes back to haunt us and who we become in the aftermath.

Moderated by Janet Somerville.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Elizabeth Hay

Elizabeth Hay is the Giller Prize-winning author of six novels, including Late Nights on Air, His Whole Life and A Student of Weather. Her memoir All Things Consoled won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction; her story collection Small Change was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. A former radio broadcaster, she spent a number of years in Mexico and New York City and makes her home in Ottawa.