Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels ended up on my reading list because the film version was shown at the Perth International Arts Festival (which is the umbrella festival for the Perth Writers Festival) this year. It should be said that I’m not usually a fan of films made from books (and wouldn’t often watch them) and going back to a book after seeing the film is an even rarer event for me, but the film version was just so beautiful that I wanted to relive it through the book.
And this …