Your Scrivener Press invites you to the Sudbury launch of A Life Consumed: Lilly Samson's Dispatches from the TB Front by Diane Sims. The event will be held on Friday October 24th 2008, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm at the Parker House located at 259 Elm St. Sudbury.

 Books will be available for $19 (tax included) at the event. Drop in for a snack and a chat!

 "In 1923 Lilly Samson, a teacher in a one-room school in Goulais River north of Sault Ste. Marie, contracted TB. She was 20 years old and engaged to be married. A year later she entered a sanatorium in Gravenhurst, Ontario. She died there in 1927. Before she did, though, she wrote a series of letters that her niece Diane Sims has made the centrepiece of a remarkably moving and thought provoking look at TB in Canada in the 20s..." - from Your Scrivener Press website.

 Link to Scrivener Press info on A Life Consumed