Bøger af Judie Rae

Howling Down the Moon is an exploration of all that lies fragile in our hearts: the connection between love and loss, between hope and despair. In many of these poems nature serves as metaphor for life's vagaries and allows the reader to find both meaning and solace in the natural world. These works are at times wistful, often funny explorations of events, large and small, that impact our souls.

Effie Latimer is on a quest, a heroine's journey. The difficulty is, there are few prototypes. Dragon-slayers, explorers who are challenged to follow the wisdom of the heart, are rarely female. (Yes, there's Joan of Arc, but look what they did to her.) The novel, a story of obsessive love, is set in the late 1980s; it is a sometimes humorous psychological study of a woman in the throes of loss, a woman who listens to her heart but forgets to heed her head. Effie returns to college to pursue another post-grad degree and is wooed by a professor, an age-old tale, though when the man in question dumps her, as he has many other coeds, Effie decides to exact revenge--not in a malicious way, though one certainly troubling to her mentor.