The Diviners is the culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's celebrated Manawaka cycle. It is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love and finally achieves the life she determined would be hers. The book has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence's writing career and won the Governor General's Award for Fiction for 1974. This copy belonged to Canadian Literature scholar Mary Rubio.