A heart-warming and humorous novel about living life to the fullest and the joy and frustration of human relationships. The novel celebrates all the blessings and bruisings of blood ties, and explores the emotional misfires that can hamper the most precious of human connections with poignancy and wry humour.
Margaret is the author of The Glass Character, a novel about the life and times of silent screen comedian Harold Lloyd. She is currently seeking representation and a publisher for this novel, which she loved researching and writing and believes is her best work to date.
A published novelist since 2003, Margaret (http://members.shaw.ca/margaret_gunning/) is a seasoned writer who has published her work in a variety of venues (columns, newspaper articles, poetry, short fiction and book reviews). Her first published novel, Better Than Life (NeWest Press, 2003) received excellent reviews, with the Edmonton Journal calling it "fiction at its finest" and the Vancouver Sun naming it as a worthy contender for the Leacock Award.
This was followed in 2005 by another novel, Mallory (Turnstone Press), a harrowing tale of a social misfit ostracized and bullied by her peers until she finds dubious acceptance in a group of teenagers living on the fringes of the law. Of the many reviews this novel received, not one was negative.
In addition to The Glass Character, Margaret has written a book of poetry (The Red Diary, based on the diary of Anne Frank) and Bus People, a novel about the inhabitants of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. She hopes these books will soon find a place on the shelf beside The Glass Character and welcomes inquiries from agents and publishers.
