The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts regrets to announce that due to unforeseen and unfortunate circumstances, Kyo Maclear has had to withdraw from the Festival.
Instead, bestselling novelist Iona Whishaw will be featured in a solo event during this time.
Iona Whishaw is a former educator and social worker whose mother and grandfather were both spies during their respective wars. She is the award-winning author of the Lane Winslow Mystery series, which has been called “highly entertaining” by Publishers Weekly, and described as “relentlessly exciting from start to finish” by Kirkus Reviews. Her eleventh novel in the series, Lightning Strikes the Silence, was named by CBC Books as a Top 20 Bestselling Canadian Book of 2024 so far, and recently hit #1 on the BC Bestseller list. Iona lives in Vancouver, BC, with her husband.
