sarahdunant.com » Saints http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:39:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 heading out for the west coast ( with apologies to Dylan) http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/ http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:29:14 +0000 Sarah Dunant http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=51 Having been on the road with Sacred Hearts and the Renaissance for almost four weeks (how rich and interesting to carry a convent of women around with you in your head) I am due a short break on a small gulf island off he coast of British Columbia and Vancouver island. I will read, eat, swim, talk to friends and watch seals – which when you think about it with their black sleek costumes and  white ringed white faces, might remind me of my nuns. I shall miss them – they have been deep in my head for over three years now  -but sometimes a writers mind had has to empty before it can fill again.

I have enjoyed the many powerful and varied conversations with everyone I have met as I have criss crossed Canada and America and look forward to many more via these pages.   Ann – thank you for the update on the Catholic church”s visitations of American convents. I feel very passionately that we are  watching a bit of history rerunning here and would love to keep talking about it.

I shall be back in October to give some talks in Seattle, Santa Barbara, Chicago and Stanford and then teach for a while at St Loius< but the great thing about the web is one can talk wherever one is. Good wishes to you all. And keep the thoughts coming.

]]> http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/feed/ 26 Vancouver with half a voice http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/vancouver-with-half-a-voice/ http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/vancouver-with-half-a-voice/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:27:43 +0000 Sarah Dunant http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=25 I love this city so much.  There is such a deep sense of relaxation to it. Any place where you can see mountains and water at the same timne is good for the soul.   Not that I am seeing much of it.  Tv am studios, books shops and the odd glimpse of a view out of car window.  But I will be back for pleasure.

On Monday I did a great gig in Ben Mcnally’s books In Toronto, but in a huge itlaian restaurant, where of course people yelled and shouted, as italians love to do.  I had brought a cold stowed away in my luggage from London and I had a voice that sounded deep enough to be the only y magnificent. Musica Secreta recorded all the lovelist bits of music which are in the book and ther do indeed have the voices of angels. A real soundtrack of its own. There are samples of it on podcasts and the web site and you can buy the Cd on a link from my site to theirs.  Music Secreta are  women who have given their lives to delve deep into history and bring alive the sounds of women ’s voices as they were 500 yars ago.  They are also enormous fun to work with.

Me – I croak and swallow throat lozenges and with luck some kind of voice will return.,  Otherwise I’ll give the seagulls a run for their money when I hit the ferry out to Victoria island tomorrow. At Cadboro books for anyone local…..

Thanks to you all for your blogs. It makes a real difference to feel one is not alone, even when the hotel room is  empty.   Sarah

]]> http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/vancouver-with-half-a-voice/feed/ 2 Saint and sinner – new article in The Guardian http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/saint-and-sinner-new-article-in-the-guardian/ http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/saint-and-sinner-new-article-in-the-guardian/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:44:31 +0000 Sarah Dunant http://sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=10 Saturday morning , written after a rather wonderful publication party for Sacred Hearts which went went on way into the night. Woke up this morning to find an article I had written in today’s Guardian newspaper: about a fabulous novel  I read by Julia O’Faolain while researching SH built around a 6th century saint, whom the novelist thinks began life as  a bit of a sinner. Those of you interested in women getting their heads above the parapet of history should check it out.   http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/04/fiction. Happy to talk about it more…..

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