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Between The Covers presents the final episodes of The Restoration of Emily

Posted by Words At Large Admin on October 08 at 12:00 AM

Kim MoritsuguEmily Harada is besieged on all sides in Kim Moritsugu’s novel The Restoration of Emily (Dundurn). Pressed by suitors, clients and friends it looks like Emily will have to face her ambiguous feelings about work and relationships. In the midst of it all her gruff sense of humour keeps getting Emily into trouble until the only way out is to fess up.

Each episode of The Restoration of Emily (Dundurn) is 15 to 16 minutes.

Episode thirteen: All of Emily’s relationships come to a head.

Episode fourteen: Emily’s integrity is called to account.

Episode fifteen: Emily rediscovers her sense of humour.

If you missed previous podcasts you can download them at Between the Covers podcasts.

And if you’re interested in readings of other Canadian books, check out the Hear A Reading page on the Between the Covers site. At the moment, you can listen to Frank Parker Day’s Rockbound (University of Toronto Press), which was the Canada Reads winner in 2005 and also to Steven Galloway’s novel Ascension (Knopf).

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