The Diviners follows the story of fictional Canadian novelist, Morag Gunn. It is a regularly featured book on the American Library Association's Freedom to Read campaign. The book has been repeatedly banned by school boards and high schools. Sonja Smits starred as Morag, and Tom Jackson starred as Jules Tonnerre. The Diviners was adapted for television by Anne Wheeler, with a screenplay by Linda Svendsen, and aired on CBC Television in 1993. Morag has a difficult relationship with her daughter Pique and her Métis lover Jules Tonnerre, and struggles to maintain her independence. The protagonist of the novel is Morag Gunn, a fiercely independent writer who grew up in Manawaka, Manitoba.

The novel won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1974. Published by McClelland & Stewart in 1974, it was Laurence's final novel, and is considered one of the classics of Canadian literature. Introducing us to an intriguing ensemble cast of characters as well as wonderfully bright and breezy heroine in Evie - and of course, a truly terrifying villain - The Diviners is a hugely entertaining adventure that will leave readers eagerly anticipating the next installment.The Diviners is a novel by Margaret Laurence. Packed with hilarious 1920s slang, snappy one-liners and intriguing period detail, this is a beautifully-crafted novel with a complex, twisting plot and plenty of creepy moments that will keep readers right on the edge of their seats. Libba Bray vividly captures the atmosphere of New York City in the Roaring Twenties from the Ziegfeld Follies to the streets of Harlem, in this appealing blend of historical novel and dark, spine-tingling supernatural murder mystery, the first in a projected quartet. That is, of course, if he doesn't catch her first…

What Uncle Will doesn't yet know is that Evie has a secret - a strange power that may have got her into hot water back home, but that may now help her to catch the killer. Plunged into a giddy world of glitzy, glamorous speakeasies, movie palaces, flapper fashions, skyscrapers and neon-drenched New York nights, Evie is in her element.īut her charmed life of dancing, ragtime and illegal gin is soon disrupted when a sinister string of occult murders come to light and Evie's Uncle Will, Curator of the obscure Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult (also known as 'The Museum of the Creepy Crawlies') find himself in the thick of the investigations. Party girl and troublemaker Evie has been exiled from small town Ohio and shipped off to the streets of Jazz Age New York City - and she is pos-i-tute-ly thrilled about it.

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