The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's celebrated
Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel, now available as a
Penguin Modern Classic.
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to
abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small
Canadian prairie town is a toughening process--putting distance between
herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the
aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious
right--relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and
again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world--and
finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers.
The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding
achievement of Margaret Laurence's writing career. In Morag Gunn,
Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all
dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives
as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance.
