In MOOSEMEAT, TURNIPS AND BETSY, Celina's perseverance is taxed beyond belief, pitted against unfavourable odds, beginning with the loss of her father and her subsequent banishment to a boarding school in a foreign country. By the late l930's Celina faces the cruel, inhospitable climate and sparse population in British Columbia's North with a husband and six young children, one of whom, Betsy, suffers multiple disabilities. Her triumphs and failures...