True North: A Memoir - Hardcover

True North is the compelling and inspirational Canadian chapter of Jill Ker Conway's life story which began with her much loved memoir THE ROAD FROM COORAIN. As vivid and graceful as the recollections of her childhood, True North begins with Jill Ker Conway's departure from Australia and arrival in Boston. We witness her romance and marriage to Canadian war hero and Harvard housemaster John Conway, and their yearlong European honeymoon during which she comes to grips with the reality of his manic-depression and the lingering, destructive anger of her Mother. Following their sojourn in Europe, Jill Ker Conway and her husband moved to Toronto, where she began a highly successful and innovative tenure as a professor at the University of Toronto, becoming its first female vice-president. Throughout True North, she shares her sense of the Canadian landscape, as powerful and mystical as any of her feelings about Australia, and her astute and perceptive thoughts about the Canadian cultural milieu of the time. We watch in this vibrant memoir, as a most private person finds for herself a public persona in Canada. This is the story moving and enriching, of a woman's education - and education not only of the mind but of the heart and of the spirit.