The Stone Angel

The Stone Angel As I began reading The Stone Angel I didn’t think I would be able to enjoy the novel just because it is not really the type of book I would read. But I have found something fascinating about the life of Hagar Shipley, about a ninety year old woman who is looking back over her life near the end of it. Hagar seems very set in her ways and is not …

…to others to read, it was written by a Canadian woman based on a small town in Manitoba, and is told with great passion and descriptive settings. I can almost imagine everything about that small town and the people who lived there. And I think the whole purpose of the stone angel in the graveyard is the one thing that never really changed through out Hagar’s life it just remained constant, looking over things.