Suzanne Evans
Suzanne Evans, author of The Taste of Longing

Suzanne Evans brings a novelist’s eye and an historian’s diligence to the story of Ethel Mulvany, a small-town girl with audacious ambitions and boundless confidence who embarks on a quixotic tour of the Asian Pacific on the brink of WWII. Amid the perils of war, she proves a courageous and clever survivor, enduring imprisonment, starvation and torture during the war, and a creative and resourceful entrepreneur and benefactor in the life she rebuilds for herself in Canada after her liberation. In Suzanne Evans’ hands, Mulvaney’s story becomes moving, inspiring and unforgettable.

~Jury statement, Ottawa Book Award, 2021

Winner of the Crieghton Book Award (biography) 2022

Winner of the Ottawa Book Award (non-fiction) 2021

Winner of the Taste Canada Book Award (culinary narrative) 2021

Winner of the Forward INDIES Book Award (biography) 2020

About Suzanne Evans

The Taste of Longing

Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs

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