Jane Covernton is a herbalist and former TV reporter whose ruminative fiction is chiefly concerned with modern spirituality and consciousness. Her first novel Raindrops and Smoke (Self-published, $25) is about a United Church minister named Robin who is married to a Buddhist husband. As Robin re-examines her turbulent Sixties background, we meet Leona, who ran away from the National Ballet School with a drug dealer and ended up pregnant and busted in South America, and the minister's mother Marjory, who went to San Francisco in 1966 to look for her wayward daughter. 0-9682477-0-9

[BCBW AUTUMN 1999]