Canadian Book Review ~ Walking with Beth by Merilyn Simonds

Happy publication to Walking with Beth: Conversations with My Hundred-Year-Old Friend by celebrated Canadian author and Governor General Award finalist, Merilyn Simonds (Penguin Random House Canada, September 23, 2025).

In the spring of 2021, worn down by pandemic isolation, Merilyn Simonds asked her friend Beth Robinson if she’d like to go for a walk. Simonds had just turned 70, which struck her as mysterious, even frightening stage of life. Yet she was still active, still writing and felt as strong as ever. Beth had just hit her centenary, a smart, vibrant woman who'd held a job until she was 99, still lived alone, and was as awake to the world as a person half her age. Who better to ask what might come next?

During three years of weekly walks, the conversation between the two women deepened, as they opened up about their heart-felt passions, the lingering influence of their pasts, and their hopes and fears for the future.

Walking with Beth is available wherever books are bought or borrowed.

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