The Observer

The Observer

By Marina Endicott
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A taut psychological drama. . . . With powerful prose . . . [Endicott] sagely employs the semi-detached tools of fiction to relay first-hand the trials, tribulations and exigencies of an embattled couples’ storied life. . . . This gripping novel is . . . typical of [Endicott’s] fluent mastery.
Winnipeg Free Press

Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award's Book of the Year.

Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Awards Fiction Award.

Winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award's Book of the Year

Winner of the City of Saskatoon Book Award

Winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award's Book of the Year

A spare and powerful new novel from the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shadows.

When Julia arrives in Medway, accompanying her beloved Hardy on his first posting as an RCMP constable, she tries to explain her new life to old friends from the city, but can find no shared vocabulary to convey this rural reality, let alone police life. As Hardy disappears into long days at work, Julia takes a job as editor of the local newspaper, the Observer. Interviewing people to compose a view of the town each week, she gathers knowledge of the community’s surface joys and sorrows; meanwhile, Hardy is immersed in violence and loss, and Julia can only witness his increasing exhaustion. At first this new life together is an adventure, but as in all the best stories, time darkens and deepens it.
    Grounded in Marina Endicott’s own experience in Mayerthorpe, Alberta, The Observer is an essential story from one of our most beloved storytellers. Endicott writes with the sure pacing and insight of a master novelist, piecing haunting details into a quietly devastating revelation of the fragility of life and law in a tightknit community.