Unravelling

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Told in alternating chapters that go back and forth between the 1990s and the present, Unravelling uncovers a story of corruption that connects the two small-town British Columbia protagonists whose worlds are irreparably damaged. Ruthless octogenarian Vivian Lennox fights her deteriorating mind as she defends the catastrophic decisions she made decades earlier. Armed only with her curiosity, 10-year-old Elena Reid is dangerously unaware of who or what she is about to expose as she searches for answers to her father's disappearance, following an explosion at the sawmill. The parallel stories come to a head with the arrival of a newcomer who is determined to find out exactly what happened to the town more than 20 years earlier, and how deeply Vivian herself was involved.

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Josephine Boxwell's Unravelling makes gripping use of the small-town fishbowl to weave a narrative that is as much a study in societal inequities and the environmental impact of myopic capitalism as it is a mystery novel.

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While I read Unravelling as an engrossing study of character, I serendipitously learned much about the individual lives caught in the building of BC and Canada in general.

Author Bio

Josephine is a writer, video editor and digital marketing specialist based in Prince George, British Columbia. Originally from the UK, she has spent the past decade living in Toronto and the BC Interior. Josephine has contributed essays and short fiction to several BC-based magazines, and is a regular contributor to Northword Magazine. Her essays have also appeared in the anthologies, Wherever I Find Myself: Stories by Canadian Immigrant Women (Caitlin Press) and Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories (Dagger Editions). Josephine obtained a certificate in Creative Writing from the Humber School for Writers, and also holds a masters degree in Post-Production Editing (Bournemouth University) and a bachelors degree in History (University of Warwick).