'Ladies of the Night' is set in Toronto and Antigua. With womens loves and lives as their focus, the stories contain dramatic twists and turns: some humorous, others shocking and disturbing, all leaving a haunting melody behind. The Toronto stories capture the issues women face as they walk the ground of intimate and family relationships in that city. The Antiguan setting of some of the stories are reflective of Princes insight into relationships, captured in her novel and essays. The characters reveal their different ways of managing a range of struggle, pain, rage, love, and pure, unadulterated joy. The humour of some stories complement the plaintive sadness and emotionality of the strings some other stories pluck.

Author Biography

Dr Althea Prince has taught at York University and the University of Toronto. She is also a fiction writer and essayist, and is currently Managing Editor of Canadian Scholars' Press and Women's Press. Dr Susan Silva-Wayne has taught social work at McMaster University, Wilfrid Laurier University, and the University of Wisconsin. She has 30 years of social work practice with women and families in Canada and the United States.