Mallory

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By (author): Margaret Gunning

Mallory doesn’t fit in. Growing up in the small town of Kenwick, Ontario during the late 1960s, Mallory gets taunted for looking like a boy, ostracized for her almost freakish intelligence, and can’t even get comfortable in her own skin, thanks to a ‘difference’ that makes her hate her own body.

AUTHOR

Margaret Gunning

Margaret Gunning’s experience in print journalism includes hundreds of columns and book reviews in such publications as the Globe &Mail, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Times-Colonist and Montreal Gazette. Her poems have appeared in Prism International, Room of One’s Own, Capilano Review and many others. Margaret’s first novel (Better than Life), described by the Edmonton Journal as “fiction at its finest”, celebrates the joy and anguish of family in small-town Ontario. Her second novel (Mallory) explores issues of bullying and social ostracism. Gunning currently lives in Coquitlam, BC.