The award-winning\, bestselling author of the Cardinal novels\, Giles Blunt discusses his new work of literary ficti on\, \;Bad Juliet \;with Chris Houston from The Idea Shop .
\nIn Bad Juliet\, recently jilted by his fiancé\;e\ , Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the tuberculosis patients at the Trudeau Sanitarium in upstate New York. There\, in the icebound beauty of the Adirondack Mountains\, he finds himself drawn to Sarah Ballard\, a be autiful but enigmatic young woman\, traumatized by her past aboard the ill -fated \;Lusitania. To rouse her out of her gloom\, Paul encourages he r to write a memoir. \;As Paul reads her words\, it gradually becomes clear that Sarah&rsquo\;s memories are a tangle of truth and fiction that he can&rsquo\;t begin to unravel. And yet he cannot overcome his attractio n to her. When a terrible relapse leaves Sarah worried that she has little time left\, she begs Paul to be the one person in the world who will trul y know her.
\nA Different Drummer Books will be on site with books f or sale and signing after the talk.
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\nGiles Blunt \;grew up in North Bay\, Ontario\, before studying En glish Literature at the University of Toronto. Author of the award-winning John Cardinal Mystery series\, his first Cardinal novel\, \;Forty Words for Sorrow\, won the British Crime Writers Silver Dagger award \, and the second\, \;The Delicate Storm\, won the Crime Writ ers of Canada Arthur Ellis award for best novel\, as did the latest\, \;Until the Night. \;He has been twice longlisted for the Dub lin IMPAC award.
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