Flying with Amelia
Trade paper, 2014
Through a century and across a country, Flying with Amelia follows the descendants of two families as they arrive on Canada’s rocky shores and scatter. Told in ten stories, the novel weaves a collective identity that speaks of hope and resilience.
This edition of Flying with Amelia celebrates the 2011 novel in a new format.
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Flying with Amelia
Hardcover, 2011
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.
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Sounding Line
Trade paper, 2009
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.
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Wind Tails
Trade paper, 2007
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.
Wind Tails and Far From Home are the same novel (Far from Home is the U.S. version).
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Far From Home
Trade paper, 2009
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.
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Treading Water
Trade paper, 2005
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.
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