The Diviners

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The Diviners

Margaret Laurence is one of Canada's beloved writers. Her most ambitious and deeply autobiographical novel was The Diviners. Laurence describes her writing process as a form of divining, which is how she came about this title. In this novel Morag Gunn (a protagonist like Laurence) explores a historical past for the meaning of her present

Margaret Laurence

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". . . May we lean
One upon another
Give and receive loving strength
And may we learn
We are one
People in our only home
Earth."

(excerpt from "Prayer for Passover and Easter; Hannukah
and Christmas" by Margaret Laurence, 1985)