Will I love In Winter I Get Up at Night?

Urquart’s storytelling captures the haunting beauty and emotional complexity of Emer’s narrative. The use of poetic language and fragmented flashbacks creates a visceral connection to the characters’ trauma, making their suffering feel intimate yet universal. The image of the door—once a symbol of shelter and security—transformed into a makeshift gurney for Emer’s broken body is a masterstroke of symbolism. It underscores the fragility of safety and the brutal repurposing of the familiar in disaster’s wake, amplifying the tragedy of innocence shattered by forces beyond control.

What lingers most is the tension between the children’s “unblemished hope” and their grim reality.… show more.

A wonderful, dreamlike story, and who doesn’t like to dream? Urquhart’s resplendent prose brought an incredible life story to life for me. The extreme setting was brilliant—rural Saskatchewan, the dark, the cold—the isolation!

I was drawn into the personal world of the main character, Emer, whose introspective journey of recollection moved seamlessly through memory’s timeless realms. My reading experience was just as immersive and engaging as Emer’s reflective journey was for her. Urquhart, the dream weaver, delivers an unforgettable character on an amazing ride while also exploring some the most powerful, world-shaping themes of the last century, such as colonial… show more.