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WORK TITLE: In Loving Memory
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WEBSITE: http://www.winonakent.com/
CITY: Vancouver
STATE: BC
COUNTRY: Canada
NATIONALITY: Canadian
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LC control no.: n 90661726
LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/n90661726
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PERSONAL
Born 1954, in London, England; immigrated to Canada.
EDUCATION:University of Regina, B.A.; University of British Columbia, M.F.A.; Vancouver Film School, diploma in Writing for Screen, Television, and New Media.
ADDRESS
CAREER
University of British Columbia, graduate programs assistant. Formerly worked as a temporary secretary, a travel agent, and the managing editor of a literary magazine.
AWARDS:Flare Magazine Fiction Contest, First Prize.
WRITINGS
SIDELIGHTS
Winona Kent, a graduate programs assistant at the University of British Columbia, was born in 1954 in London, England. When she was three years old, her family immigrated to Canada, where she grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan. She attended the University of Regina, where she received her B.A. in English. Later, she received her M.F.A. from the University of British Columbia and a diploma in Writing for Screen, Television, and New Media from Vancouver Film School.
Kent has published a number of novels, including The Cilla Rose Affair, Sky Watcher, Cold Play, Persistence of Memory, and In Loving Memory. The latter two books make up the first volumes of The Memory Series, which feature a combination of mystery and romance, centered around a time travel theme. The protagonists are Shaun Deeley from the nineteenth century and Mrs. Collins, also known as Charlie, from the twenty-first century.
In the second book in The Memory Series, In Loving Memory, Shaun and Charlie, who are living in Charlie’s countryside house in the present day, are suddenly transported back in time to 1940 London during the Blitz, a World War II period characterized by intense bombing from Germany’s air force, the Luftwaffe. There, they meet Charlie’s grandmother, who has become a target for a killer who is using time travel for his goals. Shaun and Charlie realize that if they don’t stop the killer, the future might be seriously affected.
A Publishers Weekly reviewer wrote: “Kent’s wonderfully complex and charming mystery asks interesting questions about how individual actions might change outcomes, but these heavy thoughts do not detract from Charlie and Shaun’s romance as their delightful banter reveals their solid devotion to each other.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly, May 30, 2016, review of In Loving Memory, p. 44.
ONLINE
Winona Kent Home Page, http://www.winonakent.com (February 27, 2016).
Winona Kent's writing breakthrough came many years ago when she won First Prize in the Flare Magazine Fiction Contest with her short story about an all-night radio newsman, Tower of Power. Her spy novel Skywatcher was a finalist in the Seal Books First Novel Competition, and was published in 1989 by Seal in Canada, and Bantam in the US. The sequel, The Cilla Rose Affair, was first published in 2001 and was reprinted as an e-book in 2011.
Her third novel, Cold Play, which takes place aboard a cruise ship in Alaska, was published in 2012.
Winona's fourth novel, Persistence of Memory, was published by Fable Press as an e-book and trade paperback in September 2013, and is the first in The Memory Books series featuring time-traveller Charlie Duran and her companion, Shaun Deeley.
All four of the above novels were re-printed by New York's Diversion Books on July 7, 2015 and are currently available as ebooks and trade paperbacks.
The second novel in Winona's Memory Books series, In Loving Memory, was published by Diversion Books on 26 July 2016.
Winona has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and is a graduate of Vancouver Film School's program in Writing for Screen, TV and New Media.
Winona Kent was born in London, England. She immigrated to Canada with her parents at age 3, and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she received her BA in English from the University of Regina. After settling in Vancouver, she graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing. More recently, she received her diploma in Writing for Screen and TV from Vancouver Film School.
Winona has been a temporary secretary, a travel agent and the Managing Editor of a literary magazine. Her writing breakthrough came many years ago when she won First Prize in the Flare Magazine Fiction Contest with her short story about an all-night radio newsman, Tower of Power. Her spy novel Skywatcher was a finalist in the Seal Books First Novel Competition, and was published in 1989 by Seal in Canada, and Bantam in the US. The sequel, The Cilla Rose Affair, was first published in 2001 and was reprinted as an e-book in 2011.
Her third novel, Cold Play, which takes place aboard a cruise ship in Alaska, was published in 2012.
Winona's fourth novel, Persistence of Memory, was published by Fable Press as an e-book and trade paperback in September 2013, and is the first in The Memory Books series featuring time-traveller Charlie Duran and her companion, Shaun Deeley.
All four of the above novels were re-issued by New York's Diversion Books on July 7, 2015. The second novel in Winona's Memory Books series, In Loving Memory, will also be published by Diversion Books in 2015.
Winona currently lives in Vancouver and works as a Graduate Programs Assistant at the University of British Columbia.
Kent's wonderfully complex and charming mystery asks interesting questions about how individual actions might change outcomes, but
these heavy thoughts do not detract from Charlie and Shaun's romance as their delightful banter reveals their solid devotion to each other.
In Loving Memory
Publishers Weekly.
263.22 (May 30, 2016): p44.
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Full Text:
* In Loving Memory
Winona Kent. Diversion, $14.99 trade paper (276p) ISBN 978-1-68230-078-7
Kent combines time travel, mystery, and romance in a delightful sequel to Persistence of Memory that's easily accessible for new readers. Shaun
Deeley of the 19th century and Charlie Collins (or Mrs. Collins, as Shaun insists on calling her) of the 21st century, a pair of unpracticed,
accidental time travelers, have returned to Charlie's present-day English-countryside home to begin their lives together. However, as they are
putting together an exhibit at the Stoneford Village Museum, they unexpectedly transport back to 1940 London during the Blitz, where they meet
Charlie's grandmother, then a young woman. They quickly understand that this meeting is not a chance occurrence: Charlie and Shaun's family
history and the future they've already lived all depend on protecting Charlie's grandmother from a killer who is criss-crossing through the
centuries. Kent's wonderfully complex and charming mystery asks interesting questions about how individual actions might change outcomes, but
these heavy thoughts do not detract from Charlie and Shaun's romance as their delightful banter reveals their solid devotion to each other. (July)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
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"In Loving Memory." Publishers Weekly, 30 May 2016, p. 44. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA454270599&it=r&asid=919031b7da1de03c3b38e7d069efc43b. Accessed 6 Feb.
2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A454270599