The characters, setting and atmosphere of "The Bubble Star" are both rural (northern Ontario) and urban (Toronto). The novel focuses primarily on women -- three sisters -- and their relationships with each other and with men. We have marriage, we have affairs, we have a bit of sex, including a scene in an upscale bamboo furniture boutique. One of the secondary characters is a gay male. A lesbian couple appears, and one of the women is married to a professor who is having an affair with one of the sisters working in retail. When asked by Dale Zieroth (editor of "Event" magazine) what she feared most about the publication of "The Bubble Star," Lesley replied, That people will read it and think it's a sitcom.' When Zieroth asked her what she hoped for the most from this novel, she answered That people will read it and think it's a sitcom.' Bourne goes on to say that she expects her audience will be anyone who reads "The New Yorker," anyone who works in retail (because the novel has central characters who work in retail), or anyone who watches the Shopping Channel.
Lesley-Anne Bourne has written a book of poems about the experience of loss and suffering, and of ultimate recovery from anorexia. In a few dozen spare poems, in images as clear as glass and as cutting, the poet paints a vivid picture of finding her way out of the long labyrinth of recovery. Her honesty and courage, and above all, her literary ability to describe what it is like to go through this harrowing illness, the loss of an unborn child, and the depression that follows, is both moving and admirable. She enmeshes her readers in her experience and leaves them astounded, yet ultimately filled with hope by this powerful work.
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