Charts the distinguished career of the award-winning novelist and the long battle with cancer to which she succumbed in 2003 at the age of 68. Born in Chicago in 1957, Carol Shields settled in Canada and went on to raise five children and publish 16 novels, scooping the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Stone Diaries along the way. Interview footage with Carol, her daughters and a selection of her literary peers highlight the life of a gentle unassuming writer. [Read more…]