Author: Sheila Watson. Published by McClelland and Stewart Ltd. Toronto, ON., 1992, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with age-yellowed pages, and the1st owners book-plate inside front cover. Features fold-out covers and deckled page edges. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.75 inch, 141 pages. ย
DEEP HOLLOW CREEK, A Novel by Sheila Watson, records Stellaโs astute observations of life in the isolated Cariboo Country where she has been newly hired to teach the children of a small community of ranchers near Boulder Creek.
The complexities of human nature are set amidst the harsh environment and the economic hardships of the depression era. Despite efforts to draw Stella into their tangle of social alliances, she remains detached from the town overlords, an unnaturally independent woman in her struggle to withstand the isolation and desolation of the people. -Reviewed by Jill on Goodreads. ย
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born Sheila Martin Doherty, she grew up on the grounds of the provincial mental hospital where her father, Dr. Charles Edward Doherty, was the superintendent until his death in 1922. After studying at Vancouver's Convent of the Sacred Heart, Sheila Doherty finished her university studies at the University of British Columbia in 1933. She then worked as an elementary and high school teacher throughout British Columbia โ including two years in Dog Creek (1935โ1937), which served as a basis for her first novel, Deep Hollow Creek. She married Canadian poet Wilfred Watson in 1941. In 1976, she and her husband moved to Nanaimo, where they died in 1998. ย
