Alicia Priest (1953-2015) was a journalist with more than twenty-five years of newspaper, radio, magazine and report-writing experience, with work appearing in The Globe and Mail, Canadian Medical Association Journal, The Georgia Straight, The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Magazine and Western Living. She lived in Victoria, BC, with husband Ben Parfitt, also a writer, and their two cats and one dog. They have one daughter.
"...it is an exemplary memoir, combining rich description of the
Yukon during a mining boom with the details of an almost-successful
heist, and offering a rare window into the life, laughter, and loss
of a mid-century Canadian family."--BC Studies
"Priest's story gently unfolds with almost perfect measurements of
tension, revelation and intimacy without
sentimentality."--Geist
"A ripping good read...Heart-breaking, hilarious and
suspenseful...This is a consummately well-written book, achieving
the near-impossible feat of maintaining a journalist's objective
distance while literally tracking her father's fifty-year-old
footsteps and disclosing painful family secrets with restraint and
dignity."
BC Bookworld, September 2014
"Priest's story gently unfolds with almost perfect measurements of
tension, revelation and intimacy without sentimentality."
Geist, Winter 2015 (issue 99)
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