Author of Beyond the Pale, a multi-award nominated memoir, comes Emily Urquhart’s THIRD ACT, a work of narrative nonfiction based on her essay in The Walrus that makes the case for late in life creativity, featuring stories of creative seniors from a variety of backgrounds—such as poets, physicists, musicians, scientists, and actors—with her visual artist father’s story woven throughout, and buoyed by voices of leading experts on ageing and creativity and through examples of progressive senior-led arts organizations from across North America, smashing ageist stereotypes and telling a new story about the possibilities of our third act, sold to Sarah MacLachlan at House of Anansi Press (Walrus Imprint) for Spring 2020 by Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Agency (world rights) for film/tv contact: samantha@transatlanticagency.com
