Walking out on a demoralizing second marriage, Maggie Lloyd leaves
Vancouver to work at a fishing lodge in the interior of British
Columbia. But the serenity of Maggie's new surroundings is soon
disturbed by the irrational jealousy of the lodge-keeper's wife.
Restoring her own broken spirit, Maggie must also become a healer to
others. In this, she is supported by her eccentric friend, Nell
Severance, whose pearl-handled revolver - the Swamp Angel - becomes
Maggie's ambiguous talisman and the novel's symbolic core.
Ethel Wilson's best-loved novel, Swamp Angel first appeared in 1954.
It remains an astute and powerful study of one woman's integrity and of
the redemptive power of compassion.