Hetty Dorval Category_Persephone Classics A detail from Clausen 'The

A detail from Clausen 'The Quiet Room' 1929

Lose that faith

'Does anybody in England publish Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

with a voice at once so self-abnegating yet so gay and funny and precise that we are reminded

Hetty Dorval Category_Persephone Classics A detail from Clausen 'TheEmily Carr 'Forest', 1940 (McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinberg, Ontario) AFTERWORD BY THE LATE NORTHROP FRYE 136pp ISBN 9781903155479 The first novel by one of Canada's most distinguished novelists, written in 1947, this is a quiet, subtle, morally complex story set in British Columbia about a young girl's growth from innocence to maturity. The title character, Hetty Dorval, seems to have behaved unconventionally, indeed immorally ('a very