Kelly Ward Author. Editor.: First Review!

Nice words about Keep it Beautiful

"The author’s deft facility with character and her willingness to trust her readers by infusing her stories with just the right degree of contingency mark her as an author to watch."

—Steven W. Beattie

"Ward favour[s] shorter stories that provide just enough information to comprehend their characters’ motivations and morality, while simultaneously refusing to explain things in a blandly expository manner."—The National Post

"Each story is a slice of a life that seems unplanned, inevitable, yet always hopeful. Observant and compassionate to the end."

—Carol, reader on Goodreads.com

"Keep It Beautiful is full of characters both odd and endearing and makes for fantastic summer reading for short story lovers."

—Open Book Toronto

"Ward's marginal characters—geriatric shoplifters, lovelorn gamblers, Zellers employees, OCD municipal workers—are curious curiosities. Ward lifts the everyday and everyman and transforms absurd disappointments and fragmented joys of the quotidian to reveal a fresh, intimate compassionate perspective, as all gifted writers do."

—Ibi Kaslik, author of Skinny and The Angel Riots

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First Review!