Christine Cowley

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Catherine Graham

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In July 2017, Storylines welcomed poet Catherine Graham to talk about her first novel, Quarry.

After five acclaimed poetry collections, Catherine has given us a novel that gently prods the places where we hold grief and loss and sends us looking for where our own deep wells of courage reside. A genuine, beautifully written novel, and given its setting by a water-filled limestone quarry, perfect to read right now.

Quarry would go on to win an Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for fiction, “The Very Best!” Book Awards for Best Fiction and was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Contemporary Fiction and Fred Kerner Book Award. 

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