The tumultuous weather serves to reinforce the tumult in the lives of the residents of Three Pines. Quebec writer Louise Penny on finding joy, coping with loss, and why her books aren’t ‘really’ about murder A month of muttered curses and mud-caked boots, and splattered cars, and dogs rolling, then shaking.” Of sublime afternoons sitting outside in the bright sunshine with a glass of wine, and then waking to another foot of snow.
“April in Quebec was a month of cruel contrasts. A Better Man begins with a coming storm that may be rain, or sleet, or frozen rain, or snow, and it sets the tone: Louise Penny has always used the Quebec climate as a character, as well as a backdrop, in her superb Armand Gamache series of crime novels. Log In Create Free AccountĪs Margaret Atwood pointed out nearly 50 years ago in Survival, Canada’s weather determines much about its culture.
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