Christy Logan and his wife Prin (short for Princess) are an odd choice as guardians for such a young child. Morag Gunn wasn’t born in Manawaka – her parents died when she was just five years old – and she goes to live in Manawaka with an army friend of her father’s and his wife – who agree to take the orphaned child in. The story moves back and forth between Morag’s present – where she struggles with her work and her relationship with her daughter, and the past as she grows up more and more desperate to escape the town of Manawaka. But things remained mysterious, his work, her own, the generations, the river.” Morag always felt she was about to learn something of great significance from him, something which would explain everything. Of course, his work did not depend upon eyesight. Eyesight terrible, but he was too stubborn to wear glasses. Royland was out, fishing for muskie, seventy-four years old this year, Royland. Here, Morag is alone but has friends close by – neighbours who pop in frequently.
Her eighteen-year-old daughter has gone away for a while and she is worrying about her, watching the river – trying to get her mind back to her work. As we first meet Morag, she is a forty-seven-year old woman, living near a river. The Diviners is the story of Morag Gunn, a fiercely independent writer, her difficult relationships with her Métis lover Jules Tonnerre, and her daughter Pique. Manawaka is the fictional prairie town that first appeared in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel. Strangely, the novel has also been banned several times by school boards for blasphemy. An epic novel, which is already considered a classic of Canadian literature. So very glad I did, I loved every bit of this novel, not a fast read, but a thoroughly absorbing one, beautifully written it proved a real treat spending time with this book. I had wanted to read this so long, I decided it didn’t really matter – I should read what I wanted to.
The Diviners the final novel in Laurence’s Manawaka sequence (though I still have to read number three and the collection of stories) is though a novel of outsiders.Īt about 400 pages, I thought twice about reading this, as I am trying not to pick anything too big as I race toward the end of my A Century of Books. In Margaret Laurence’s final novel most of her characters are searching searchers for home, family or creativity, water or scavenging in town dumps.
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