The book was also nominated for the "Viacom Award" and a " Governor-General's Award". King won the " Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction", and the Canadian Authors Association's "Birks Foundation Award for Non-fiction". King an "outstanding example of creative non-fiction", further stating, "Charlotte Gray has written a biography with the narrative power of a fine novel." Awards and honours Her son portrayed her as the "ideal woman, the epitome of motherhood and an angel of goodness and light." His biographers have her portrayed as "an ambitious, grasping manipulator who pushed her eldest son into politics and then contrived to keep him a bachelor so that he could support the rest of his family." Wilfrid Laurier University's Faculty of Arts panel called Mrs.
In the book, the author chronicles the life of William Lyon Mackenzie's daughter the mother of Canada's longest serving prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King. Charlotte Gray: A Novel Hardcover Februby Sebastian Faulks (Author) 525 ratings 3.8 on Goodreads 11,127 ratings Book 3 of 3: French Trilogy Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 14.86 77 Used from 1.69 12 New from 14.83 17 Collectible from 9.40 Paperback 14.93 116 Used from 1.00 10 New from 9.85 3 Collectible from 8. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer Charlotte Gray, first published in 1997 by Penguin Books.
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