Author Description

Pick any social struggle in Canada over the last 20 years and you can be sure that Maude Barlow was in the thick of it. This passionate, "unrepentant" Canadian has fought in the trenches of women's rights issues, pornography, free trade, national unity and human rights concerns. Her story, which moves from a middle class, protected childhood to Parliament Hill, to Iraq on the eve of war, from corporate boardrooms to the slums of Mexico, is a fascinating political biography and a behind-the-scenes look at the issues and the personalities that engage and anger us, unite and divide us. "The Fight of My Life" is Maude Barlow personified. Feisty, opinionated, compassionate and caring, it hums with the stories of ordinary and extraordinary people, taking us into the heart and mind of a woman of courage.