Books

Check out our first official Chatelaine Book Club pick: Ami McKay’s The Virgin Cure. In part one (pages 1-116), we meet 12-year-old Moth, who finds herself out on the streets after her mother sells her into service.

Writing a novel is largely a solitary effort. Months of putting pen to paper (and fingertips to the keyboard) go by, and in the midst of building a world out of words, you forget what’s to come after you type “The End.”

In this passage from The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay, our heroine Moth wakes one night to find that a mother’s love is anything but a sanctuary.

Debut novelist Jennifer Hillier tells us what she has planned and what really creeps her out

Eli and Charlie Sister set out for a kill in 1850s San Francisco, quarreling along the way and questioning their immorality.