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This is so exciting -- Dania Idriss's Tales of the Mountains and the Sea is number one on the Calgary bestseller list this week! Congratulations, Dania!

🦉Now available -- we're honoured to publish this completely new edition of Minerva's Owl: Afterthoughts on Love and Loss. This book was near and dear to Carol Matthews, who revised the book and added a new epilogue shortly before her death late last year. 💙

After “nine days in which we thought you would recover and then eight days in palliative care,” Carol’s husband of more than forty years passed away suddenly. Through the shock and grief that follows, Carol writes and writes, with love and anger and honesty and heartbreak, as she comes to an understanding of bereavement as not the end, but as a stage of married love.

Alison Watt says that Minerva's Owl is "more than a tender handbook for the grieving; a brimming saga of a courtship and marriage, it reminds us to attend well to the art of living.”

Carol leaves us a profoundly wise book on great love and great loss -- about grief and mortality and, above all, about LIFE.