Carol Shields: Colette Maitland

Colette Maitland: Oh, My Darling, Shaena Lambert, according to The Star. Keeping the Peace, Colette Maitland This month the short-story form finally got the respect it deserves. Here are five new collections. The Vancouver writers previous work Radiance , a novel, and The Falling Woman , her first collection both received high critical praise a review in The Independent added her name to the pantheon of Canadian women that includes Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields . Now she brings us 10 new stories, some set in Canada, some farther afield. The creepily delicious title story, first published in The Walrus , has one of the strangest narrators ever. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.