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Mary Novik author of Conceit
Don’t miss this one! Lara Hinchberger, Editor at Doubleday Canada speaks with Mary Novik, author of Conceit — a historical first novel (long-listed for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize) about the poet John Donne’s daughter Pegge.
photo credit: Nicholas Seiflow
Don’t miss this one! Lara Hinchberger, Editor at Doubleday Canada speaks with Mary Novik, author of Conceit — a historical first novel (long-listed for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize) about the poet John Donne’s daughter Pegge.
photo credit: Nicholas Seiflow
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Fiction
Anchor Canada | 978-0-385-66206-2
July 29, 2008
$21.00
It is the Great Fire of 1666. The imposing edifice of St. Paul’s Cathedral, a landmark of London since the 12th century, is being reduced to rubble by the flames that engulf the City. In the holocaust, Pegge and a small group of men struggle to save the effigy of her father, John Donne, famous love poet and the great Dean of St. Paul’s. Making their way through the heat and confusion of the streets, they arrive at Paul’s wharf. Pegge’s husband, William Bowles, anxiously scans the wretched scene, suddenly realizing why Pegge has asked him to meet him at this desperate spot.
