Award-winning Canadian author Jane Urquhart has written a large number of short stories, including her collection Storm Glass, published in 1986. These stories were written between 1979 and 1984, and are inspired by Urquhart's time traveling around the world and the things she experienced while doing so.
This collection encompasses some very different stories, including the eponymous "Storm Glass." Urquhart does not write in a single voice, but instead channels her poetic vision through different voices and perspectives. Some of the stories are grouped under the title "Seven Confessions," and Urquhart admits that these stories were written under "a kind of white heat." In these "confessions," Urquhart writes from different perspectives, her speakers including men, women and children.
