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What or who is Joan Clarks "An Audience Of Chairs" based on?

My grandmother who has been estranged from the family for 30 years apparently lives in a farmhouse in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. My mother lent me the book and she believes the Joan Clark may be an acquaintance of her mother. I'm very curious! Could someone please tell me who the book was based on, or was it all fictional?

Clark may have been inspired by contact with her own relatives. Her grandmother drowned herself.

"Clark notes that the idea for An Audience of Chairs came in part from her own familial legacy of depression, with which she struggled at one time and which led a grandmother to suicide. 'One of the things I was interested in was exploring the idea of family pride, which was abundant in my family. So much pride, in fact, that many of them refused to admit that their grandmother had committed suicide.'"

http://www.booklounge.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676976564

Scroll down to the bottom of the linked page.

"I know a number of people who have varying degrees of bipolar disorder, a condition that I think is familiar to many, if not to most of us. The human psyche is subject to highs and lows and that fact, along with questioning what is sane and what is insane, has long fascinated me. Most of what I've learned about the disorder has come from observation . . . " http://www.bookclubs.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676976564&view=auqa

The author is definitely familiar with Cape Breton, so she may have met your grandmother.
"Well, part of my childhood was spent in Cape Breton and a large part of my imagination lives there; also living in Newfoundland I have often used the ferries. My father, Bill MacDonald, was a Cape Bretoner who was very proud of his Scottish heritage, as am I. . . ." (See foregoing link.)
If you are considering getting in touch with your grandmother or writing to the author about this, I wish you good luck!