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New book releasing early November

Have fun, enjoy, read on. And write on.

Mary Daurio likes to spend time with family, walk the dog, play flute, but not housework or shovelling snow so much. She is studying creative writing at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and she has had some poems and short stories published online and in print. Presently, Mary published a horse racing memoir, A Horsewoman’s Vintage Vignettes, and a fictional novel set in 1915, Time and Chance. It offers a glimpse into human nature and our precarious state and is an allegory for drug use. Soon to be released is a horse racing mystery in the style of Dick Francis, Joint Forces.

New Book re-releasing November 1st

(Will be available in paper back, Kindle and Kindle un-limited.)

A Horsewoman’s Vintage Vignettes, told in stand alone conjoining short stories, follows Mary from her early years on the family farm with her first pony to a young adult obtaining a driver’s licence to race Standardbred, harness horses. Right alongside the big boys and their shiny sulky-carts, despite the clubhouse doors all having mandles. The story leaves her as a fifty-year-old, open to the idea of a resurrected marriage.
One thing that never needed enervating was her love of horses. They carried her through the high times and the hard as hell times, never missing a step. Flip the pages and come along on the ride. Be entertained. There is joy in the journey, tempered by sorrow and perseverance. Lessons learned and life lived on the sketchiest of budgets, but to the fullest with family, friends and many exquisite equine companions. If you love horses, this story is your bridlepath. If all things equestrian are not a favourite, no matter, you can still enjoy this coming-of-age and reinvention story, which stands tall on its own.