Engrossing historical fiction for readers of Bride of New France and The Birth House about one of Canada’s most inimitable pioneers and her struggles to survive in the wilderness, brought beautifully to life in this accomplished debutTeetering on the edge of genteel poverty, Englishwoman Susanna Moodie agrees to leave behind her growing career as a writer to follow her husband from her beloved Suffolk to the backwoods of Canada. John Moodie is an ...

Attachment Disorders explores the inevitably disordered attachments of motherhood, daughterhood, marriage and friendship, and the indignities of aging in a youth-obsessed world.After years of struggling with a persistent writer’s block, novelist and free-lance writer, Hattie Brown, has begun a new project. Then, on Christmas Eve, her quirky, demented 85-year-old mother, Florence, disappears without a trace, and her recalcitrant actress daughter, Daphne, makes a sho...