Posted on 27/03/08
The accidental novelist
There isn't much to Mary Swan.Not much, that is, to the size of her literary output. A dedicated writer for more than 25 years, Swan can claim perhaps 25 short stories to her credit, a handful or so of which are found in the 2003 collection Emma's Hands. There's a novella, The Deep, issued six years ago. And now there's a 207-page novel, The Boys in the Trees, just published in Canada and the United States by New York's Henry Holt and Company.
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