Christine Cowley

Collector of Stories, Explorer of Perspectives

Kate Hilton

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“We don’t understand memory at all…our own past is mysterious. You move further away each day from the reasons you took this path or that one and you’re left with only the story you’ve told yourself.” That’s a paraphrased quote from Just Like Family, author Kate Hilton’s latest novel, and it’s one of the themes we discussed in Kate’s interview that first aired on Storylines in September 2017.

Just Like Family was one of my picks for best reads of Summer 2017, and it had some serious competition! This is a laugh-out-loud book, but Kate reaches out through her wicked sense of humour to challenge us with some pretty deep thoughts—if that’s where we want to take it.

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First Series: WHAT THE DAY DOES NOT KNOW, prequel to ALL THE DAY ALLOWS.

Twenty-year-old Marjory McAllister is running out of time. If she doesn’t act soon, her overbearing aunt will push her into a loveless marriage and small-town life. So, when a handsome stranger calls out for missionaries to northern Africa, the summons seems like an answer to prayer. But Marjory’s storybook notions about missionary service are about to meet with a fierce awakening.

Inspired by true accounts of Canadian missionaries in Nigeria and Ethiopia in the 1930s, ALL THE DAY ALLOWS explores a little-known nugget of Canadian history. In its prequel, WHAT THE DAY DOES NOT KNOW, Marjory must face harsh truths about her own motives.