Arts & Culture

The Meaford Public Library will present Canadian historical fiction author Jennifer Robson on Saturday, September 23 at 2 p.m. in the Meaford Hall Galleries. Jennifer Robson has an academic background – studying Modern History at King’s University College at Western University, then at Saint Antony’s College at the University of Oxford where she was a Commonwealth Scholar and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow. She is the author of several bestsellers including The Gown, Goodnight from London, Our Darkest Night, and many more...

There is little, if anything, that I did not appreciate about this book. The setting, the time-frames, the characters, the imagery, the nuanced language, all of it added up to a glorious read for me. I have been a fan of Ann Patchett’s long before reading this one. She has proven her story-telling chops with such bestsellers as Bel Canto and The Dutch House. In Commonwealth she mirrored her own chaotic family, which she also wrote about in her...