July 10, 2015: Jade Colbert's Globe and Mail review of Martine Delvaux's novel Bitter Rose, translated by David Homel, is just out.

June 17, 2015: "Fans of the gritty realism in works by Quebec authors such as Heather O'Neill or Rawi Hage will find another favourite in Delvaux." -- Dory Cerny, review of Martine Delvaux's novel Bitter Rose, translated by David Homel, in The Humber Literary Review (Spring-Summer 2015, p. 54).

April 28, 2015: A long and appreciative National Post review by Philip Marchand of Martine Delvaux's first book in English, Bitter Rose (translated by David Homel).

March 27, 2015: Bitter Rose author Martine Delvaux and the disappearing girls who haunted her childhood are featured in this Gazette piece by Ian McGillis.

March 27, 2015: Ceri Morgan interviews Martine Delvaux on Salon .ll.about her novel Bitter Rose (translated by David Homel), LLP 2015. 

“Martine Delvaux’s Bitter Rose delivers a poetic stream of consciousness rant from a young female seer born to prophesize in the most unlikely of places: a French-Canadian suburb in the 1970s and 1980s. Delvaux's voice is mysterious and disturbing and raw. She spins ordinary life into a horror story. She finds redemption in the mundane. Her girls are ugly on the inside, and therein lies their strange, explosive beauty.”
– Heather O’Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals

“A twisted fairy tale, Bitter Rose is utterly compelling. The distinctive voice of the young heroine hooks the reader from the first page. The world of girls and women it presents is precarious; as deceptively fragile as the high-rise turret the narrator lives in as a small child. With its sense of threat underlying the daily routines of 70s life built around Dairy Queen, swim-class and Charlie’s Angels, Martine Delvaux’s novel offers us a glimpse of the suburban sublime.”
– Ceri Morgan, author of Mindscapes of Montreal

Excerpt

“I came into a world where no one spoke of men, they were not a subject of conversation because they didn’t really exist, or only as grandfathers, bosses, neighbours, doctors. Life was lived among girls. There was my grandmother and her slow-witted but malevolent sisters. There was my mother who worked all the time. And there was me.” 

Notable

27 March, 2015: Ceri Morgan interviews Martine Delvaux, author of Rose amer, which is published in an English translation by David Homel as Bitter Rose (Linda Leith Publishing, 2015). Part I of the interview is here, and Part II is here.

27 March, 2015: Feature article on Martine Delvaux by Ian McGillis, video and photo, The Gazette. 

11 March, 2015: Bitter Rose author Martine Delvaux publishes "Women Disappear Every Day" on Commonwealth Writers in honour of International Women's Day.

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