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Ilese In the trophy win-en In the junior done: for the Turn Snddle Club salon. Luau) 1 right or: Kathleen Hui, Dunne While. Lois Underwood, Many Gil], DDI‘IIII W e, Donald: Gown. Ind Susan Walker. who won the high point trophy; (I I If , ' I r r . Faust Curie Beckett, .loltn Senior trophy winners are, left to right. Jean Leg-re, Keith , Hope. Carolyn Winter. Dennis Kingston 1nd Shannan Elliott. high point winner. Ahunl were Terry Mole Illd Dick Tophlm. Prize-Winning author : writes another novel % By ANN KELLY Family Living Editor A Wlnner ol Canada's first novel award. loan Bax-loot is at ll again loan daughter of Mr and Mrs Ruben SV Barlooz cl RR 2. Owen Sound. has completed the book Dancing in the Dark The story deals with a housewile who has devoted her life in looking after her husband and house. finds a poinl of betrayal and kills him Her prize-winning finl novel Abra. also focussed on a wife and mutl‘mr who gjtes up her home situation for a solita- ry life of simplicity Unmarried. loan finds mar-Hal situations fascinating and “exotlt” and, although she doesn't choose that life for herself hooks "are a way for a writer to have all sorts of dif- ferent lives as you try to be in the role for a while." A reporter with the London Free Press. loan claims a trigger for her latest book was the police monitor in the newspaper office. Many of the calls are men bg ing up their wives Her book is a woman who has ushand. “The book t yourself, and an} is about gel, Instead at bits and piecas It comes out in one large disaster " loan. a graduate oi West Hill Second- ary School, worked at The Sun Times a couple of aummers. She studied journal» ism at Western University and niler lhrce years of a lour-year course. look a job with the Windsor Star. She finished a degree in English while in Windsor She has worked with papers in Toronto and has been al the Free Press since 1976. ' Although Joan's books deal with mar. ital situations, about her own like she says. “I very muLh like my indepen- dence I'm a feminist, it seems to me that's self-interest for a woman now: ll not a temmzst, and a woman. you are rotting the ground beneath your u’wn feet." Although some of her best friends are men. about marriage loan says. "lt's , a matter oi boundaries and restrictions that come With life style." She certainly sees herself writing mare books, “i can't imagine not writing but it's a question of whether or not they gm published." The book. Dancing in the Dark order locally at Curries nudfiest. Tl? tail price is 517.95 ‘ 'f