Iona Whishaw
Auteur de A Killer in King's Cove
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Séries
Œuvres de Iona Whishaw
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Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- Kimberley , British Columbia, Canada
- Études
- University of British Columbia (MFA|Creative Writing)
- Professions
- Social Worker
high school teacher
High School Principal
writer - Courte biographie
- Iona Whishaw has been a youth worker, social worker, teacher and an award winning High School Principal, who continued with her writing throughout her working life. Receiving her Masters in Creative writing from UBC, Iona has published short fiction, poetry, poetry translation and one children's book, Henry and the Cow Problem. The Lane Winslow mystery series is her first foray into adult fiction.
Iona was born in Kimberley BC, but grew up in a number of different places, including a small community on Kootenay Lake, as well as Mexico and Central America, and the US because of her father's geological work. She took a degree in history and education from Antioch College, and subsequent degrees in Writing at UBC and pedagogy at Simon Fraser University.. During the course of her career as a Principal in Vancouver she was awarded the Woman of Distinction in Education by the YWCA in 2010 and a Canada's Outstanding Principals award in 2012.
Her hobbies have included dance, painting, reading, and gardening. She currently is a vocalist for a small Balkan dance band in Vancouver, and is patiently waiting for her next opportunity to engage in her current pash, long distance, cross country rambling in England.
She is married, has one son and two grandsons, and lives in Vancouver with her artist husband, Terry Miller.
Membres
Critiques
Reading this during a Minnesota January, I vicariously felt the warmth of the Tucson sun with Lane and Darling in this installment of the Winslow mysteries.
I continue to enjoy Wishaw's exploration of how women and men in the post war period reacted to changing roles for women in society. One thing she gets right is that along with progress there is also a reactionary response.
Something that historical mysteries are always dealing with is how to explain/contextualize the female protagonist acting on her own behalf. Other heroines spend half the novel arguing with their male "chaperones" and it gets tiresome to read the same argument over and over. And at the same time sometimes the rationale for why the heroine is involved gets a bit ridiculous. What I'll say for this series is that the relationship between Darling and Lane is not static. They are continuing to share new things and learn from each other.… (plus d'informations)
I continue to enjoy Wishaw's exploration of how women and men in the post war period reacted to changing roles for women in society. One thing she gets right is that along with progress there is also a reactionary response.
Something that historical mysteries are always dealing with is how to explain/contextualize the female protagonist acting on her own behalf. Other heroines spend half the novel arguing with their male "chaperones" and it gets tiresome to read the same argument over and over. And at the same time sometimes the rationale for why the heroine is involved gets a bit ridiculous. What I'll say for this series is that the relationship between Darling and Lane is not static. They are continuing to share new things and learn from each other.… (plus d'informations)
I really wanted to finish this book, but it is personally too historical for me to hold interest, and I found my mind wandering, and reading and re-reading passages. I tried to press on, but by page 81, decided that quits made more sense. In 1948, Lane (a main character) arrives in New Denver to see her friend Peter, but since he was not around, she wandered to a meadow and met an indigenous man named Tom with a very interesting history of his ancestral lands, which happened to be owned by others, including her friend. I thought it was kind of odd that the book started that way, since the time history starts in 1948, and Peter is NOT her husband, but off the bat in the beginning, she is looking for a MALE friend and ends up talking a lot to a MALE STRANGER who could have been very unfriendly at the least. She also ends up talking to a male storekeeper, whom she knew, but even she felt was odd. The book alludes to the fact that Lane seems attracted to danger, though, as when she had to call her HUSBAND Inspector Darling (the name humor was not lost on me) to let him know that while she was on this big adventure, yakking and basically trespassing, she found a dead body sticking out of shallow grave. And that is where I will stop, because the story line does not go much further than that by page 81. It is not really a spoiler alert, as the back of the book will tell you most of this, except my opinion, and my dim view on such openness in a female for that time period, or even now. If you like lots of history, unbelievable story lines, multiple characters, and/or mystery stories, this may very likely be a book for you to read.… (plus d'informations)
What I enjoy most in Whishaw's books are the mentions of the area in British Columbia near where I now live such as Nelson and Balfour. Each time I drive along that road I try to imagine the King's Cove buildings, separated by paths and overlooking the lake as described in the series. The recollection of life in the 1940s is not always rosy, especially when homeless, abandoned children were involved. Still, I thoroughly enjoyed the story, the budding romance between Lane and Inspector Darling, and look forward to reading more books in the series.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Membres
- 777
- Popularité
- #32,752
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 42
- ISBN
- 41
- Favoris
- 1
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