And while other young people her age were listening to The Beatles, she was doing intensive care work at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. She nursed for eight years before returning to study some more and then teach nursing. Add to that her time as a nurse and she’s been watching people’s behaviour since she was 18 years old, if not earlier. Along the way she has learned something about human behaviour.
I just wanted to create these six people who were trying to get through to the next day.”Īt 78, Itani has lived a life of observation, that has produced 18 books including That’s My Baby, Tell, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, Requiem and Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. “I didn’t want my characters sitting around contemplating their own mortality and thinking ‘I’m at stage one, two or three’. “Let me make clear to you first of all that I absolutely avoided looking up anything to do with the stages of grief.
The Company We Keep by Frances Itani (Harper Collins)īut before we get too immersed, this novel is not an examination of the seven stages of grief, Itani told ARTSFILE.
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