The Time of Her Life literary collections and a keen awareness of

and a keen awareness of the shiftings and transformations of selfhood

Lauren McKeon was the editor of Canada's progressive

Cronin is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

and as an English professor at the University of Toronto

The Time of Her Life literary collections and a keen awareness ofIn The Time of Her Life, David Helwig draws us into the world of a woman of character. Indeed how Helwig tells the tale is as absorbing as the tale itself as we follow Jean from small town Ontario to a privileged life as la contesse de Servide in wartime France to genteel poverty in Montreal, adapting her actions and values to survive in the world around her. At fifteen, Jean is ready to slip into the secret life of adults; already she enjoys the