Rose Addams is hitting her sixties, but these days it feels like they’re starting to hit back…
Her daughter, Morgan, has ditched her thesis program and moved back home to Vancouver, while her son Jason’s partner has never seen eye to eye with his mother. Her husband Charles has decided to take early retirement from the university to work on his long-gestating book, and his rakish best friend Garnet has a new mistress who is way too young for their social circle. When Rose encounters a young man panhandling outside of her library office though, a chain of events is set in motion whereby Rose will have to confront all the facets of her rapidly-complicating life…
Recalling the work of Caroline Adderson, Krista Foss, and Marie-Renée Lavoie, Margie Taylor’s Rose Addams is an insight into the life of a woman who is in the process of beginning her third act, an empathetic and incisive look at the problems of those just exiting middle age while attempting to keep up with a rapidly-changing world.
Margie Taylor grew up in Thunder Bay, attended Lakehead University, and began her radio career there. As a CBC Radio host and producer, she hosted regional and national radio programs, and appeared on arts and entertainment programs across Canada. She’s the author of three novels: Harrow Road; Displaced Persons, and Some of Skippy’s Blues, as well as a collection of humorous essays, and a compilation of book reviews. Currently, she lives in Coquitlam where she teaches ESL and is working on a novel based on the life of her mother.
“This book is a close study of what it truly means to be family. It explores connection, changing priorities, hidden truths, and burgeoning self-discovery. There is much change in the works, but at the heart is the true love of one woman’s heart as she seeks out to help those closest in her life.” — Worn Pages and Ink
"Rose Addams is a Canadian everywoman: readily recognizeable, easy to engage with, sympathetic and empathetic." — The Walleye Magazine
"[f]unny, charming and entertaining." — Alison Manley, The Miramichi Reader
"[a] quiet masterpiece … It is both loud and quiet, funny and somber, solidly grounded and deeply moving.” — Michael Sobota, The Chronicle-Journal