Daughter of Family G first aired on CBC Radio’s The Sunday Edition in September of 2002.
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Daughter of Family G [mp3 non-flash]
Kitchen Ghosts the CBC radio doc that relates the real life inspiration for what became my first novel, The Birth House.
When I was a child I loved finding things…a jar of my grandmother's old buttons, a cigar box filled with boy scout badges and river stones, a flouncy party dress pushed to the back of my mother's closet - circa 1955. With every relic I discovered, there came a story. Real or imagined, the tales that surrounded each object were magic, making the 'thing' more immediate, something more than it was before I'd found it.
Fact or fiction, fantastic, joyful or sad, stories make us more than we were before we found them. Welcome to my shoebox of buttons, sealing wax and scribblings.
