My Year in Fairyland
Description
Sarah Ellis's wife had been toughing it out with MS for more than a decade when she finally received a date for a medically assisted death in Switzerland. The year of waiting brought astonishing moments of playfulness and joy. Ordinary concerns fell away. Ellis tells the story of her extraordinary sojourn in fairyland, the preparation, the journey, life in an altered state, and the return to the real world, forever changed.
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Sarah Ellis is the author of twenty books. She has received such honours as the Canadian Governeor General's award for Children's Literature and the TD Canada Children's Literature Award and her books have been included on the American Library Association's list of notable books. She is the recipient of the British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. For thirty years she worked as a librarian in public libraries, and she taught for seven years at The Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has a master's degree in children's literature from Simmons College in Boston. When not writing stories, she lectures on Canadian books and writes book reviews for The Hornbook. Sarah lives in an old house in Vancouver with her cat, where she gardens, reads, cooks, doodles, zooms with far-flung friends, and plunks on the ukulele.