SOURCE: "A Dazzling Novel of Home and Away," in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, September 11, 1993, p. C22.

In the following review, Grove-White praises Urquhart's evocation of time and place in Away, noting that despite the specificity of its locale, the novel has universal relevance.

For anyone who believes that Canadians, or at least Canadians of European descent, are soulless, sexless creatures who inhabit not so much a landscape as a bottom line, Jane Urquhart should be required reading. Like Michael Ondaatje in Toronto and Jack Hodgins on Vancouver Island, Urquhart dreams our history for us, peopling the countryside around Lake Ontario with revenants born in memory, in imagination, in that enigmatic place where history and geography overlap.

Away, Urquhart's ambitious, dazzling new novel, recounts an alternative history of Canada lived through several generations of an Irish family who settle in Southern Ontario. Beginning in Ireland in the final...