Flying with Amelia
A St. John’s boy learns the finer points of communication while his employer Marconi receives the first transatlantic wireless signal. A British Home Child finds sorrow and solace on an Ontario farmstead. In 1920s Montreal, a one-armed WWI veteran gambles everything for a future with a beautiful, intelligent, political young woman.
Sounding Line
On the evening of October 4, 1967, the tiny fishing village of Perry’s Harbour, Nova Scotia, is invaded: by the “incident”—which sends local fishermen scrambling to find survivors of an assumed plane crash—and by everything that comes after.
Wind Tails
At a side-of-the-highway diner on a mountain pass, during one extraordinary, windy day in 1977, the paths of an odd assortment of travellers cross. The stories of each circle around points of departure: what sets one on one’s journey.
Far From Home
When circumstances set 19-year-old Jo on the road, she doesn’t quite know where she is going—she’s just going. But due to the kindness of strangers, she finds her way to Cass’s Roadside Café, a side-of-the-road diner on a mountain pass in the middle of nowhere.
Treading Water
The voices of the residents of Bear Creek surface in Treading Water, a novel in twelve stories. Gus Sanders, a young trapper, arrives to seek his fortune in 1904, but loses his heart, and then his life.