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The novel, which earned MacLennan the Canadian Governor General's Award for literature, was a sort of Catharsis for MacLennan, whose first wife Dorothy Duncan was dying as he wrote it. The female Protagonist , Catherine, who suffers from a Rheumatic heart, represents to some degree MacLennan's wife.