BOOK CLUB
THE ACCIDENTAL TOUR GUIDE
Mary Moody, Simon & Schuster, $35
Mary Moody wrote six mini-features for our very first diary, under the rubric Troubleshooting in the Garden . They inspired Kevin Lane to produce characteristically witty paintings. One of them hangs on my wall. A yew tree shaped into a muscular Adonis is visible behind a voluptuous middle-aged lady brandishing shears. Two intriguing memoirs, and , told of Mary’s adventures in France and after. A lover. A break-up. A forgiving husband. You have to respect a lady who, to salve her grief when her trusty husband died, drank two bottles of wine a day, then bounced back to normal levels of consumption unscathed. Now that the opioid crisis has shown where medical solutions can lead, alcohol and chocolate seem less depraved. Visits to Vancouver, Cannes, the Himalayas
