THE GOLF WIDOW’S REVENGE

“I have a library getting on to 3,000 golf books and I can’t think of any one of those many books which I enjoyed reading more than reading your THE GOLF WIDOW’S REVENGE. In reading your book, I will not say that I suffered greatly but I recognized someone I know–me. We churls have been exposed before but never with such grace, wit and wisdom. I appreciated that. You have produced a pearl. Fortunately I heard about your book and count it among my blessings that I had enough sense to get a copy. In that library of almost 3,000 golf books there are many treasures but none will be more treasured than yours.”

Joseph S.F. Murdoch

Former Member: Museum Committee, U.S.G.A., Golf Writers Ass’n of America, Golf Collectors Society, British Golf Collectors Society (Honourary), International Philatelic Golf Society, Golf Historical Society of Canada

“One of the funniest excerpts we’ve ever published.”

Betty Kelly
Fiction & Books Editor, COSMOPOLITAN

“All right, if you want a funny, totally irreverent look at the world of golf, I’ve got a must read for you. P.J. Smith (a gal) has written a dandy pocketbook called The Golf Widow’s Revenge. It is full of satirical anecdotes on the game and is indeed a rib-tickler. Smith, by the way, lives on Vancouver Island. . . ”

Gorde Hunter
Times-Colonist

DOUBLE BIND

In this delightful and bizarre novella, Patricia Jean Smith weaves elements of classical mythology with the experimental telling of a contemporary story of detections. Throughout this black comedy, a woman who is a trained scientist clings to the logic of her paternalistic culture. Ironically, the betrayal of this disconnected rationality forces her back into herself; back into the certitude of her own sensual experience. DOUBLE BIND exists in the unresolved realm between “damned if you do” and “damned if you don’t.” A novella of intriguing paradoxes, DOUBLE BIND mirrors the dilemma faced by women in the last decade of the 20th century.

“I was haunted by DOUBLE BIND for days afterward, wondering just what had happened.”

Rosemary Sutcliff
English novelist

“I’ll be watching for her next book.”

Tom Sandborn
Vancouver Sun

A SONG FOR MY DAUGHTER

“Pat Smith’s novel is a richly-textured set of narratives. There are stories within stories within stories, each character offering a perspective on surviving loss and violence by coming to terms with the difficult solace of the natural world. The reader is taken on a journey from Vancouver up the Fraser canyon, across time and landscape, where the smell of sage informs the senses and the dense layers of myth and history inform the heart. You won’t forget these women and their complex relationships with each other and the man who enters their lives, first as an observer and then as a passionate participant in the cycle of death and renewal that is at the heart of this remarkable book.”

Theresa Kishkan
Canadian Writer

“A Song For My Daughter” is a daring story of love and transformation. Patricia Jean Smith is at the top of her novelistic form. She finds, in her British Columbia landscapes, those special animal/human places where ancient mythologies coincide with the contemporary world.”

Robert Kroetsch
Canadian Writer