My new book has a couple of Christian characters in it, and will again deal with issues of faith in times of struggle and suffering – but I don’t think I’ll ever write a novel that’s just for Christians. God isn’t mentioned by name in The Phoenix Files, but for me the central theme of that whole series is search for hope and meaning in a broken world – and I think I lay my cards on the table pretty clearly by the end of Doomsday about where I think that hope and meaning can be found. I hope that everything I write shows something of my faith.
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Having worked with Christie before on essays for Motherwell, I was particularly looking forward to connecting the written voice with the actual one, and was immediately struck by her authenticity, and how easy it was to talk with her. Christie’s therapeutic journey reveals, with much detail, her experience with self-esteem and intimacy issues, her history of battling an eating disorder, and a childhood trauma, which she has been unable to fully write about until now. I absolutely loved talking to Christie Tate about her debut memoir, Group, an instant NYT bestseller (and Reese Witherspoon’s November book pick)-about her writing process, her years-long experience with group-based therapy, and how it’s all impacted her approach to motherhood. I have only ever listened to this series up until this point. I read The Nature of the Beast, and while it didn’t come close to being a favourite, I also found that I missed having this series read to me. I then also purchased A Great Reckoning and Glass Houses as soon as they hit the store’s shelves. So, I went out and purchased the hardcover of The Nature of the Beast, the first to be read using some new narrator, at that time still unnamed. This great loss still has the power to move me to tears. He had this rich, buttery and grandfatherly tone of voice, and the way he gave wonderfully warm voices to the other characters in Three Pines (my most beloved would be Ruth and her duck – Cosham gave that duck a special and distinctive personality just as much as Gamache!) was so special, it would be so dearly and terribly missed. How could anyone possibly embody Armand Gamache the way Cosham did? Cosham was Gamache. After the passing of Ralph Cosham, Louise Penny’s dedicated narrator for her Gamache series (#1-10), I swore I wouldn’t be able to listen to this series in audio ever again. 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