As her story unfolds, we are drawn into her past. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant – and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her – Hagar Shipley makes a bold last step towards freedom and independence. ‘ In her best-loved novel, The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence introduces Hagar Shipley, one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (1964) I will be including seven books per destination, so as to showcase the best of the work which I have read, and not to make the posts too lengthy. I have copied the official blurbs, and have also linked my review if I have written anything extensive. I thought that I would prepare a week-long series of books which I would recommend in the countries which I have been to so far in 2018.
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