The Refuge Literary Qualities

This Study Guide consists of approximately 21 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Refuge.

The Refuge Literary Qualities

This Study Guide consists of approximately 21 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Refuge.
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The genesis of The Refuge was a request from the publisher, Doubleday, for a novel set in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Hughes had by that time been living in Edmonton for over twenty-three years and had raised her children there. She had a wealth of experiences to draw upon, from bicycle rides into the river valley to an understanding of how long a car ride from the south side over a bridge to the northwest quarter of the city would seem to a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl.

Monica Hughes remembers the very moment that was the beginning of her novel The Refuge: "When my children were very small they came running into the house in great excitement one day," she said in a personal interview. "We've found a secret place behind Campbell's Furniture," they told her. "We're going to call it Campbell's Bush." They wanted to tell...

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