Jacket Blurb

Marilyn Bowering is a wonderful writer: a playwright, poet and novelist. I've heard her read on several occasions and she has the ability to elevate the consciousness of everyone in the room to a rarified perspective in which her language provides clarity, insight and emotional force.

Originally, Marilyn sent the following text for use as the jacket blurb to Bruce Symaka, the marketing head at Turnstone Press:

From the first act of instinctive violence to the shattering event that
liberates Bailey's characters from its thrall, Bailey has both characters
and readers twisting on the spit of morality: What is good? What is evil?
The truth of both is not just ambiguous; it is contradictory and frightening
and fuelled by the identical imperative to protect what is loved. Bailey's
vision is absolutely compelling.

In a few sentences Marilyn captured the heart of the story and the forces that drive the novel forward. But because there is so little room for cover text, the Turnstone team cut the second to last sentence and went with a more spare version:

From the first act of instinctive violence to the shattering event that
liberates Bailey's characters from its thrall, Bailey has both characters
and readers twisting on the spit of morality: What is good? What is evil?
Bailey's vision is absolutely compelling.

I confess, I prefer her original version; but as we know, "brevity is the soul of wit."

Be sure to visit Marilyn Bowering at her web site.