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Having won a writing contest when she was eight years old, Carolyn Redl has been penning stories ever since. She grew up in northern Saskatchewan, attended the University of Saskatchewan and later earned a PhD in English from the University of Alberta. She eventually ended up teaching English at the University of British Columbia. She has written many travel articles, has a collection of poetry, earthbound (Borealis Press, 1978) and a memoir, A Canadian Childhood (FriesenPress, 2016).
The focus for her memoir is living on a farm, capturing what it was like living a rural Canadian life in the 1940s and 1950s. Redl describes skiing to school, collecting magpie eggs for bounty, and swimming in a frigid snow-melt pond. It is also a coming-of-age story describing Redl's awareness that her father longed for a son; being bullied at the one-room country school she attended; and moving to town for high school where she lived in a garage.
Twenty years in the making, Four Seasons by the Salish Sea: Discovering the Natural Wonders of Coastal Living (Heritage House, 2023) is Carolyn Redl’s love letter to the land she has called home since 2001. Illustrated with photography by Nancy Randall, the book is equal parts travelogue, memoir and natural history. “How often have you heard someone say, ‘when I reitre, I’ll move to the island’?” she queries. “‘Hurry,’ I want to urge them. ‘Life here is even more amazing than you can imagine. It is paradise.’”
BOOKS:
Earthbound (Borealis Press, 1978) 9780919594906
A Canadian Childhood (FriesenPress, 2016) 9781460288313
Four Seasons by the Salish Sea: Discovering the Natural Wonders of Coastal Living (Heritage House, 2023) $32.95 9781772034479
[BCBW 2023]
The focus for her memoir is living on a farm, capturing what it was like living a rural Canadian life in the 1940s and 1950s. Redl describes skiing to school, collecting magpie eggs for bounty, and swimming in a frigid snow-melt pond. It is also a coming-of-age story describing Redl's awareness that her father longed for a son; being bullied at the one-room country school she attended; and moving to town for high school where she lived in a garage.
Twenty years in the making, Four Seasons by the Salish Sea: Discovering the Natural Wonders of Coastal Living (Heritage House, 2023) is Carolyn Redl’s love letter to the land she has called home since 2001. Illustrated with photography by Nancy Randall, the book is equal parts travelogue, memoir and natural history. “How often have you heard someone say, ‘when I reitre, I’ll move to the island’?” she queries. “‘Hurry,’ I want to urge them. ‘Life here is even more amazing than you can imagine. It is paradise.’”
BOOKS:
Earthbound (Borealis Press, 1978) 9780919594906
A Canadian Childhood (FriesenPress, 2016) 9781460288313
Four Seasons by the Salish Sea: Discovering the Natural Wonders of Coastal Living (Heritage House, 2023) $32.95 9781772034479
[BCBW 2023]
