A Student of Weather

A Student of Weather is a brilliant first novel by acclaimed storywriter Elizabeth Hay. Already a best seller in Canada, it tells the story of the rivalry between two contrasting sisters and of the stranger who changes both their lives forever. Spanning thirty years, it opens in the Prairie Dust Bowl of the 1930s and, later, in the decades following the war, moves back and forth between Ottawa and New York City.

Maurice Dove is a visitor to the Saskatchewan farm of widower Ernest Hardy.…