SOURCE: A review of Goodbye Harold, Good Luck, in Quill & Quire, July, 1986, p. 59.

Garebian is an India-born Canadian writer and educator. In the following review of Goodbye Harold, Good Luck, he praises Thomas as a keenly sensual writer.

In her introduction to this collection of 13 short stories [Goodbye Harold, Good Luck], Audrey Thomas describes how her mind works through correspondences. "Connect" appears to be a guiding principle in her fiction, and she moves into thought only through her senses—particularly her visual sense.

The sensorium gets full play in this collection, in which the various stories are given far-flung settings such as England, Scotland, Greece, and Africa. But it is not merely the exotic or the vagaries of local custom that engage Thomas: her fiction is most often centred on points of view and on what Joyce called "epiphanies" of truth. Whether it is a broken-hearted woman with...