Reviews for the Factory Voice

Wascana Review

The Factory Voice is a fine debut novel by Jeanette Lynes. Set in an airplane factory in Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay), the novel gives voice to four notable female characters: Audrey Foley, an Alberta runaway of sixteen; Muriel MacGregor, ... Continue Reading

Jen's Book Bag

Audrey, Muriel, Ruby, and Florence have only one thing in common; they all work at a northwestern Ontario airplane factory. With fugitives on the loose, sabotage occurring somewhere on the plant floor, and a reporter just itching to get the big story,... Continue Reading

Prairie Fire Magazine

Jeanette Lynes is best known for her poetry collections, among them It's Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems and A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway. Now Lynes has turned to the novel.

The Factory Voice involves a story set during the Second

Stenographers, Spinsters, and Snack-Wagon Girls

Northern Ontario, 1940s. Most of the men are off to war while women from across Canada migrate to Fort William to work in the plane factory. As The Factory Voice uses multiple narratives, many voices tell the story of Fort William Aviation, particularly

Event

As we travel… into Jeanette Lynes’s novel The Factory Voice, we find ourselves immersed in lighter skies and past time. The novel is set in 1941 at the peak of World War II and focuses on a military aircraft factory in Fort William, northwest

Quill & Quire

Jeanette Lynes’ debut novel, The Factory Voice, is an entertaining and engaging story set in an airplane factory in Fort William, Ontario, during the Second World War. Lynes, a professor at St. Francis Xavier University, brings the wartime experiences

Globe & Mail

The Factory Voice, set in Fort William, Ont. (now part of Thunder Bay), in the midst of the Second World War, is so much fun to read, with such an inventive and entertaining premise, that I can imagine it as a great television series.

First-time novelist

Winnipeg Free Press

In the 1940s, thousands of Canadian women shouldered the responsibilities of non-traditional jobs to compensate for the men who were off fighting the Second World War

In her debut novel, Nova Scotia-based poet Jeanette Lynes portrays the era of Rosie