A story-spinner since she could speak, Carol Lewis was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, in 1955, and always felt she was living in the wrong place and time. Diamante is the manifestation of her imaginative compensation, allowing Carol to live the life that she was meant to embrace. In writing this book, she has made every effort to keep the historical references accurate. The majority of her characters are in fact historical and lived in the places and at the times mentioned in Diamante's journal. Carol is an eclectic artist, working in the widest variety of media, from cloth to acrylic paints...