Gildiner has not written dry clinical case studies, but instead deeply moving accounts of people trying to come to terms with childhood trauma. These journeys of discovery are both thought provoking and surprising. As Gildiner writes, ‘In...
WHAT THE PRESS HAS TO SAY COAST TO COAST THE GLOBE AND MAIL “Get the balance right and though and strike literary gold. It’s what made a best-seller of Frank McCourt’s ANGELA’S ASHES and a classic of W.O. Mitchell’s...
– LEANNE MILECH Special to The Globe and Mail, Published Friday, Dec. 19 2014 Cathy McClure, Catherine Gildiner’s younger self and the heroine of her third and final memoir, Coming Ashore, is funny, energetic, incisive and courageous...
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” – Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory Review by Bob Douglas, Critics At Large.ca This apt epigraph opens Catherine Gildiner’s first volume, Too...
Catherine Gildiner’s new book is a solid “10” January 14, 2015 by Lynda Davis Coming Ashore is the third book in Catherine Gildiner’s autobiographical trilogy. Coming Ashore is the third installment in Catherine Gildiner’s autobiographical series...
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The Waterloo Region Record, Nov. 2014 by Chuck Erion (also published on Goodreads) My relationship with Catherine Gildiner began in November, 1999. Her childhood memoir, “Too Close to the Falls,” had just arrived at our bookstore and I grabbed it...
—katherine o’day November 3, 2010 When Cathy Gildiner walked into the offices of Artvoice on a sunny day last summer, I immediately thought she was the most elegant person I’d ever seen come through that door (and Artvoice has been host to...
Too Close to the Falls has received the following awards/success… Was on the extended New York Times best seller list Holds Canadian record for The Globe and Mail best seller’s list — 104 weeks On the Boston Globe‘s best...
A smart, nervy teen comes of age; Catherine Gildiner looks back on her not-so-typical life Montreal Gazette Sat Oct 10 2009 Page: H6 Section: Weekend: Books Byline: SUSAN SCHWARTZ Source: The Gazette She did such outrageous things as a teenager...
– GEORGE DUMA/For The Tribune, Friday, December 18, 2009 PORT COLBORNE – Catherine Gildiner is pretty much an adopted local. The Toronto-based author was born in Lewiston, N.Y., in 1948, raised in Niagara Falls, N.Y., then spent her teen...
– Brian Lockhart, April 12, 2006 Reprinted with permission Inspiration comes from many places, but perhaps the greatest source is the daily knowledge and happenings we observe around us as we journey through life. Renowned author...
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