Mansbridge Dunn Publishers: The Exact Likeness of Living Persons

SILVER MEDAL WINNER, 2022/2023 Reader Views Literary Awards

ADULT FICTION

Wry observations on friendship, the fragility of love and survival, and the unfathomable scope of human behaviour in a collection of poems, short stories, a play, and a song. Included in the ensemble is the tale of a WW2 bomber crew's daring escape; a complicated romance in a retirement residence; and, the youthful lament of a tangled friendship.

The Exact Likeness of Living Persons swings from the laughable and ironic, to the deadly serious, much like life itself.

"... well constructed, clever, with very good endings." Whistler Independent Book Awards

"Margaret J. McMaster is aware of the darkness that threads through all our lives. There is light, too - and humour - but she refuses to look away from the difficulties, the obstacles, the hard truths. Her poems and prose compel us to focus, to pay attention, to look below the surface of things." Paul Nicholas Mason, author of The Rogue Wave and The Night Drummer

ISBN: 9781777170356

Publication Date: October 31, 2022

No. of Pages: 240

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About the Author:

Margaret is a multimedia creator who writes, paints, produces videos for the YouTube Channel: A Sweet Enough Life, and designs journals for Mansbridge Dunn Publishers. This is what she calls retirement after working in education, business, and library services. She lives in Canada with her Miniature Schnauzer, Max (who is constantly vying for attention), and a husband who lovingly takes him for walks. She is a proud member of The Writers' Union of Canada, The Arts Society of Kingsville, and Amherstburg's Gibson Gallery.

Publishing History:

Margaret J. McMaster published her first book of middle-grade fiction, Carried Away on Licorice Days, in 2008. It was nominated for three literary awards: the Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year for Children Award, the 2010/2011 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award, and the 2011 Rocky Mountain Book Award. In 2009 she started writing the Babysitter Out of Control! series. These amusing, fast-paced adventures include: Babysitter Out of Control!, Looking for Love on Mongo Tongo, The Improbable Party on Purple Plum Lane, What Happened in July, The Sinking of the Wiley Bean, and, The Queen of Second Chances. The Complete Babysitter Out of Control! Series, published in 2015, was long-listed for the 2016 Silver Birch Award, was a Best Books for Kids & Teens selection, and won the GOLD MEDAL in the 2015 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, Early Reader/1st Chapter Books category. McMaster is a past contributor to the Canadian Children’s Annual and her creative non-fiction piece, After All These Years, was shortlisted for the 2006 CBC Literary Award. So Much Potential, a novel set in the Lake Erie fishing industry, was published in 2013. It was a Best Book for Kids & Teens *Starred* Selection. The first book in her Phoebe Sproule series, 8 Days in DUMBO, was named one of *The Year’s Best* by Resource Links and won an Honourable Mention in the 2019/2020 Reader Views Literary Awards. The sequel, The Haunting of Cedar Hill Plantation, was released in 2020 and won a Bronze Medal in the Reader Views Literary Awards. In 2022 she published a collection of adult short fiction called, The Exact Likeness of Living Persons. It won a Silver Medal in the 2022/2023 Reader Views Literary Awards.