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Introduction to Margo Bates

Her writing style is a slice of Canadiana which offers a unique look into the culture of Northern British Columbia. Margo Bates has captured the idioms, slang and expressions — the very nature of northern life — because she lived it.

She got an early start to her writing career. When Margo was ten-years-old, her pioneer grandmother began a correspondence with her that lasted for over thirty years. The results: P.S. Don’t Tell Your Mother and Queen of the Gated Community: part fact, part fiction.

Readers soon become immersed in the comical, quirky, and irreverent stories which chronicle the life of Maggie Mulvaney and her grandmother Nana Noonan, somewhat of a local legend in the town of Telkwa, British Columbia, Pop. 852.

Margo maintains the distinctive voices of Maggie and Nana throughout, and the supporting cast of characters promises to entertain with a unique look at a prevailing problem throughout northern and rural Canada in the 1960's: prejudice. 

Through the use of humor, Margo's stories show one example of how one person - Nana Noonan - stands up to prejudice.  Nana supports her best friend in a way only she can - using her Irish temper and a gun.