num_pages: 224
description: Walking out on a demoralizing second marriage, Maggie Lloyd leaves Vancouver to work at a fishing lodge in the interior of British Columbia. But the serenity of Maggie’s new surroundings is soon disturbed by the irrational jealousy of the lodge-keeper’s wife. Restoring her own broken spirit, Maggie must also become a healer to others. In this, she is supported by her eccentric friend, Nell Severance, whose pearl-handled revolver – the Swamp Angel – becomes Maggie’s ambiguous talisman and the novel’s symbolic core.Ethel Wilson’s best-loved novel, Swamp Angel first appeared in 1954. It remains an astute and powerful study of one woman’s integrity and of the redemptive power of compassion.
language: English
title: Swamp Angel
titlecomplete: Swamp Angel
genres: Womens, 20th Century, Canada, School, Novels, Classics, Canadian Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1009
places: Canada
publisher: McClelland & Stewart