Mayr, SuzetteVance, Erin Emily Ann2019-02-072019-02-072019-01-21Vance, E. E. A. (2019). Flood waters: a novel (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.http://hdl.handle.net/1880/109888Flood Waters centres around Matilda Netherwood, a young woman suffering from severe epilepsy, and examines her coming-of-age as she breaks free from her extremely strict and restrictive grandfather and finds herself in a relationship with a married man. As Matilda navigates illness and isolation, and then illness and motherhood, the various perspectives of the novel ruminate on her past and present and the ways in which she is and has always been a haunted woman.enUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.EpilepsyGothic LiteratureCreative WritingfictionmotherhoodillnessisolationLiteratureLiterature--ModernLiterature--Canadian (English)Literature--Canadian (French)Literature--Englishmaster thesis10.11575/PRISM/36137