num_pages: 320
description: ‘One of the best novels I have read this year. It’s deft, funny, poignant, surprising and beautifully shaped.’ Margaret Atwood Mary Swann, a latter-day Emily Dickinson, submitted a paper bag of poems to newspaper editor Frederic Cruzzi mere hours before her husband hacked her to pieces. How could someone who led such a dull, sheltered life produce these works of genius? Four very different people search for the elusive answer.
language: English
title: Mary Swann
titlecomplete: Mary Swann
characters: Morton Jimroy, Rose Hindmarch, Frederic Cruzzi, Sarah Maloney
genres: 20th Century, Books About Books, Literary Fiction, Womens, Novels, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Mystery
ratings_count: 2206
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Arthur Ellis Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: HarperCollins