![]() ![]() This theme is also central to Mister Sandman (1995), which was nominated for a Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize. Through the Green Valley is Gowdy's most conventional work, a historical romance of an 18th-century Irish peasant.įalling Angels (1989), which traces the lives of three daughters in a repressive 1950s-era suburb, explores the dark secrets and unhappiness lurking beneath a family's normal appearance. ![]() She considered careers in music and finance, and worked as an editor before publishing her first novel in 1988. Barbara Gowdy grew up in Don Mills, a Toronto suburb, and attended York University and the Royal Conservatory of Music. ![]() Barbara Gowdy, novelist, short-story writer (b at Windsor, Ont ). ![]()
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