A couple of novels I read recently and recommend:
The Outlander, a first novel by Canadian Gil Adamson. Set in what is now Alberta in 1903, the protaganist is a young widow who is on the run after killing her husband, pursued by his twin brothers intent on avenging his death. Unique characters she meets along the way transform her journey. Continues to a strong ending when I was afraid the author might cop out a bit.
Mister Pip, by New Zealand author Lloyd Jones, was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The theme for this novel is the power of stories to transform, with a teacher who "taught us how to imagine the world" using Dickens' Great Expectations as his major tool. It's from the perspective of teenage Mathilda, who lives in a community on a South Pacific island shattered by conflict.
Wendy
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