Jan Redford
–Author–
BOOKS
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Praise for End of the Rope
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Climbing mountains becomes a source of both joy and loss for Jan Redford—as she finds her own gutsy route through that other wilderness, of marriage and motherhood. Cheryl Strayed, move over: End of The Rope is a rambunctious, funny, heartstopping memoir that carries us along on an electric current of risk and courage.
–MARNI JACKSON, author Don't I Know You?
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Jan Redford is a bad-ass. She is also a born storyteller, and this one - the mountains she has climbed, the men she has loved - and survived - is gritty, funny, tragic, and ultimately victorious.
Women’s voices are a conspicuous rarity in the mountaineering world, and tobacco-chewing mother’s voices are even rarer; Redford’s is a bracing and refreshing corrective - intimate, affectionate, loud and clear.
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Jan Redford is my new favourite feminist anti-heroine: a potty-mouthed, tobacco-chewing, take-no-shit mountain climber who is at once strong-minded and insecure, fierce and vulnerable, loveable and flawed. Redford’s voice pulsates with immediacy and vitality, and she writes her story with a bull’s eye precision and unflinching honesty. Inspiring, funny, heartbreaking, and bold, End of the Rope is a book about survival and courage, about letting go of old dreams and finding new ones. I couldn’t put it down.
–JOHN VAILLANT, author of The Golden Spruce
–AYELET TSABARI,
author of The Best Place on Earth
BIO
JAN REDFORD is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU and holds a master’s in creative writing from UBC. Her stories, articles, and personal essays have been published in the Globe and Mail, National Post, Mountain Life, Explore, Catapult, LitHub, and anthologies and have won or been shortlisted in several writing contests. She lives with her family in Squamish, BC, where she mountain bikes, trail runs, climbs, and skis. Her memoir, End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood is her first book.
CONTACT
For any media inquiries, please contact my publicists.
In Canada
In U.S.A.
Ruta Liormonas
rliormonas@penguinrandomhouse.com
Tel: p. 647-788-3978 c. 416-557-5518
Patricia Kells (BC)
I am represented by:
Samantha Haywood
Transatlantic Literary Agency
Suite 3500, 2 Bloor Street East
Toronto, ON M4W 1A8
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