The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has
four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster
sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than
the tedious routine of her days.
Stacey MacAindra burns--to burst through the shadows of her existence to
a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly
remember from her past.
Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine--human,
compelling, full of poetry, irony, and humour. In the telling of her
life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the
pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in
everyone's soul.