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A portrait of a turbulent and beautiful seventy-year-long marriage forged during the onset of World War II. Born in the 1920s on a working-class London street, Harry Miles wins a scholarship and grows into adulthood as a sensitive man, torn between his love for poetry and the immediate demands of the world around him. When he marries the magnetic and demanding Evelyn amongst the outbreak of war, his capacity to love is increasingly tested—up to and beyond when she abandons him on the cusp of death. An unconventional love story, harrowing and deeply tender, Dear Evelyn studies two people who permanently shape each other over a shared lifetime.

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Praise for Dear Evelyn Page's treatment...quietly hums with emotional charge. The war years, with Harry fighting in North Africa and Evelyn struggling with a young child at home, are especially vivid, but this watchful, empathetic chronicle retains sensitivity through the less obviously eventful decades of home-building and child-rearing....Page's watchful and very British tale remains devoted to both and forgiving to the end. A searching, and touching, depiction of the places where married lives merge and the places where they never do. --Kirkus (starred review) Praise for Kathy Page Page...runs circles around authors who work twice as hard for half the reward... One of the most talented short-story writers working today delivered yet another knockout collection that is both darkly funny and terribly sad. --Globe and Mail A moving novel about knowledge, self-awareness and the power of words, set in the purgatory of prison. This young man's life demands our attention and refuses to let go. --Kirkus (starred review) Like children at a sleepover, tucked beneath shared covers, the stories whisper to one another, providing a thematic richness to the book that far outstrips its page count. --The Walrus Tight, strange, nifty stories. --Margaret Atwood Her fiction is sensuous and verdant, grafting lyrical prose onto stories and situations that appear almost as legends. --National Post Page's prose is vivid and alive, with nary a scrap of throwaway writing to be found. --Publishers Weekly Alphabet is not just highly readable, but one of the strongest, most eloquent, most tightly constructed novels of the year...It is a measure of the quiet artistry of Alphabet that, out of material that would have been at home in the blackest of black comedies, Kathy Page has celebrated, with rare deftness, the resilience of the human heart. --Sunday Telegraph A complex book, and splendidly written, Alphabet is an intensely compelling reading experience that speaks to the power of words and the significance of language in all its dangerous subtleties. --The Edmonton Journal One of our most daring writers ... If you don't know Page's work yet, she's a find. --Caroline Adderson Kathy Page is a massive talent. --Barbara Gowdy One of the most complex characters I've ever met in a novel. --Victoria Times Colonist Emotionally resonant, poignant examinations of life and love and - most piercingly - death... Page is a highly skilled miniaturist, capable of pulling off powerful effects by way of simple (though never simplistic) prose and a keen eye for human fallibility and ambiguity. --Quill & Quire The Two of Us contains stories about pairs, couples, dyads-mainly intense one-on-one relationships... [and Page's] duos are all united by a primal desire for intimacy. --BC Booklook

Praise for Kathy Page Page...runs circles around authors who work twice as hard for half the reward... One of the most talented short-story writers working today delivered yet another knockout collection that is both darkly funny and terribly sad. --Globe and Mail A moving novel about knowledge, self-awareness and the power of words, set in the purgatory of prison. This young man's life demands our attention and refuses to let go. --Kirkus (starred review) Like children at a sleepover, tucked beneath shared covers, the stories whisper to one another, providing a thematic richness to the book that far outstrips its page count. --The Walrus Tight, strange, nifty stories. --Margaret Atwood Her fiction is sensuous and verdant, grafting lyrical prose onto stories and situations that appear almost as legends. --National Post Page's prose is vivid and alive, with nary a scrap of throwaway writing to be found. --Publishers Weekly Alphabet is not just highly readable, but one of the strongest, most eloquent, most tightly constructed novels of the year...It is a measure of the quiet artistry of Alphabet that, out of material that would have been at home in the blackest of black comedies, Kathy Page has celebrated, with rare deftness, the resilience of the human heart. --Sunday Telegraph A complex book, and splendidly written, Alphabet is an intensely compelling reading experience that speaks to the power of words and the significance of language in all its dangerous subtleties. --The Edmonton Journal One of our most daring writers ... If you don't know Page's work yet, she's a find. --Caroline Adderson Kathy Page is a massive talent. --Barbara Gowdy One of the most complex characters I've ever met in a novel. --Victoria Times Colonist Emotionally resonant, poignant examinations of life and love and - most piercingly - death... Page is a highly skilled miniaturist, capable of pulling off powerful effects by way of simple (though never simplistic) prose and a keen eye for human fallibility and ambiguity. --Quill & Quire The Two of Us contains stories about pairs, couples, dyads-mainly intense one-on-one relationships... [and Page's] duos are all united by a primal desire for intimacy. --BC Booklook

Praise for Dear Evelyn Quietly hums with emotional charge. The war years, with Harry fighting in North Africa and Evelyn struggling with a young child at home, are especially vivid, but this watchful, empathetic chronicle retains sensitivity through the less obviously eventful decades of home-building and child-rearing....Page's watchful and very British tale remains devoted to both and forgiving to the end. A searching, and touching, depiction of the places where married lives merge and the places where they never do. --Kirkus (starred review) Page charts the emotional shifts that take place over the course of their marriage, from first flush of love to old age, with subtlety and sensitivity. --Booklist I know of no contemporary writer who deals so convincingly with love. Page consistently dramatizes the ways in which the feelings of intimate couples are puzzling mixtures of hope, lust, genuine caring, resentment, politics, and much else...ambitious and profoundly resonant. --BC BookLook Praise for Kathy Page Page...runs circles around authors who work twice as hard for half the reward... One of the most talented short-story writers working today delivered yet another knockout collection that is both darkly funny and terribly sad. --Globe and Mail A moving novel about knowledge, self-awareness and the power of words, set in the purgatory of prison. This young man's life demands our attention and refuses to let go. --Kirkus (starred review) Like children at a sleepover, tucked beneath shared covers, the stories whisper to one another, providing a thematic richness to the book that far outstrips its page count. --The Walrus Tight, strange, nifty stories. --Margaret Atwood Her fiction is sensuous and verdant, grafting lyrical prose onto stories and situations that appear almost as legends. --National Post Page's prose is vivid and alive, with nary a scrap of throwaway writing to be found. --Publishers Weekly Alphabet is not just highly readable, but one of the strongest, most eloquent, most tightly constructed novels of the year...It is a measure of the quiet artistry of Alphabet that, out of material that would have been at home in the blackest of black comedies, Kathy Page has celebrated, with rare deftness, the resilience of the human heart. --Sunday Telegraph A complex book, and splendidly written, Alphabet is an intensely compelling reading experience that speaks to the power of words and the significance of language in all its dangerous subtleties. --The Edmonton Journal One of our most daring writers ... If you don't know Page's work yet, she's a find. --Caroline Adderson Kathy Page is a massive talent. --Barbara Gowdy One of the most complex characters I've ever met in a novel. --Victoria Times Colonist Emotionally resonant, poignant examinations of life and love and - most piercingly - death... Page is a highly skilled miniaturist, capable of pulling off powerful effects by way of simple (though never simplistic) prose and a keen eye for human fallibility and ambiguity. --Quill & Quire The Two of Us contains stories about pairs, couples, dyads-mainly intense one-on-one relationships... [and Page's] duos are all united by a primal desire for intimacy. --BC Booklook

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