On our cover, the light filters through the spaces between the trees to illuminate the snow on the ground.īy each focusing on one side of the quote, somehow both publishers managed to illustrate the symbolism of separation.įor more on Leonard Cohen’s influence on Louise, click here. It would appear that our jacket designer focused instead on the second part of Leonard Cohen’s quote: That’s how the light gets in. While investigating the death of a character clearly based on the Dionne quintuplets, Gamache is also preparing, with the few allies he has left, for a decisive confrontation with his enemies in the Force. They split the quote even further by actually dividing the cover into two parts. To my mind, How the Light Gets In is one of the best of the Gamache series, and is a welcome return to Three Pines. Our Slovakian colleagues chose to focus on the first part of the stanza - There’s a crack in everything - with imagery suggesting a crack in the floor. In examining this week’s international edition, from Slovakia, we were struck by the differences in how we both interpreted this quote. I can think of few other writers who could sidestep cuteness in a scene that features an elderly female poet and her pet duck.' Here is a scene. This quote first appeared in A Fatal Grace, then inspired the title of Louise’s ninth book, and clearly guides a recurring theme throughout the Three Pines canon. In her review of How The Light Gets In for The Washington Post, Maureen Corrigan writes: 'Penny's voice occasionally amused, yet curiously formal is what makes the world of her novels plausible.
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