In the heart of cottage country in Ontario, bordering on a native reservation, Ann and Richard are confronted with the abrupt reappearance after ten years of a local man, Billy. His presence once again in their lives brings back powerful memories and rekindles old conflicts, love, and a betrayal, as each of their past and present stories gradually unfolds during one 1980s summer. Containing all of the elements for which The Island Walkers was celebrated, The Last Woman envelops us in Bemrose’s flawlessly crafted and complete world, where each character is unforgettably alive and real, and the land itself breathes its own story into our hearts.
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“Bemrose offers us nothing less than a template for embracing the core of life’s meaning….”
— Globe and Mail
“John Bemrose’s characters […] live as real people live: contradictory, capable of kindness and disdain, of near-simultaneous love and hate, of gross betrayal….”
— Times Literary Supplement
"The Last Woman's greatest success is its near-Tolstoian unfolding of the psychology of love triangles."
— The Walrus
"Once again, [Bemrose] is writing with poise and authority...."
— Globe and Mail
"Lush and poetic, polished and crisp."
— Quill & Quire
"Toronto journalist and playwright John Bemrose's second novel, a solemn sketch of rural Ontario race relations, seems tailored for entry into the CanLit canon."
— Toronto Life
— Globe and Mail
“John Bemrose’s characters […] live as real people live: contradictory, capable of kindness and disdain, of near-simultaneous love and hate, of gross betrayal….”
— Times Literary Supplement
"The Last Woman's greatest success is its near-Tolstoian unfolding of the psychology of love triangles."
— The Walrus
"Once again, [Bemrose] is writing with poise and authority...."
— Globe and Mail
"Lush and poetic, polished and crisp."
— Quill & Quire
"Toronto journalist and playwright John Bemrose's second novel, a solemn sketch of rural Ontario race relations, seems tailored for entry into the CanLit canon."
— Toronto Life
About the Author
John Bemrose’s first novel, The Island Walkers, was a national bestseller, a finalist for The Giller Prize, and a long-list nominee for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Toronto.
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A Compelling portrait of love, regret and yearning for the simplicity of certainty,
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This book is remarkably engaging. John Bemrose follows His first book The Island Walkers with a wonderfully sensitive and insightful story of three people from different worlds and with different perspectives drawn together through love history, friendship and duties that drive them to re-examine their beliefs.
The story telling is engaging and the characters are so well drawn that you really do feel you know much more of them than what is written. Every time I open the book it's as though I am transported to this other world. I can smell the pines of the Canadian north. and hear the waves lapping against the dock on the edge of the lake. I highly recomend this book
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