Let the revival begin!
I first read Jan Hilliard three years ago. The book was Dove Cottage, her third novel. It may not be the best place to start, but Dove Cottage is very good, so good that I purchased and read all her others.
Morgan's Castle was Jan Hilliard's most successful book saleswise. Published in 1964 by Abelard-Schuman, it received enthusiastic reviews. Anthony Boucher championed the novel in the pages of the New York Times. Unlike her other books, it enjoyed second, third, and fourth lives in mass market paperback.
Fifty years have passed since Morgan's Castle last hit drug store spinner racks.
It returns to print this week as the nineteenth Véhicule Press Ricochet Book.
As series editor, I'm proud to have played a part. In my opinion, Jan Hilliard stands with Phyllis Brett Young (whose 1962 thriller The Ravine was Ricochet #16) as the two most unjustly neglected Canadian authors of their generation.
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| Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] in a 1973 Toronto Star profile. |
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