Synopses & Reviews
The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurences celebrated Manawaka cycle,
The Diviners is an epic novel.
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers.
The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurences writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance.
The Diviners received the Governor Generals Award for Fiction for 1974.
Synopsis
Morag Gunn has distanced herself from a world that wanted no part of her, relinquishing her aloneness only in the overwhelming need for love. Again and again she is forced to test her strength against the world.
The culmination and completion of Laurence's celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel and Morag Gunn has become a symbol of courage and endurance. Considered by many as Laurence's outstanding achievement, The Diviners won the 1974 Governor General's Award.