That Saturday Night

About the Book

That Saturday Night is the story of how the author, when she was fourteen years old in wartime Scotland, encountered her estranged father for the first and only time. The central incident is told both in the voice of the girl and in the imagined voice of the father, a marine engineer on the Atlantic convoys. She struggles to make sense of that meeting, and to come to terms with the absent presence in her life and in the lives of her mother and siblings. The story, which evolves in a mix of prose narrative and poetry, moves from her girlhood in Scotland to her adult life in Canada, where age, time and distance have brought understanding and reconciliation.

About the Author

Sally Crooks was born and raised in Kilmarnock, Scotland. She trained in music and theatre arts at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, England, and subsequently, for several years, pursued a career in those areas in Great Britain.

In 1965, with her husband and two children, she immigrated to Regina, Saskatchewan, where she has lived since that time. After obtaining a Bachelor of Education degree, she taught English and pursued her interest in music and related arts, specifically singing, acting and directing, both in the schools in which she taught and in the larger community. She has been writing non-fiction and poetry for a number of years with publications in literary magazines and anthologies.