Happy New Year!

I’m back after my brief hiatus and while I didn’t accomplish everything I wanted to do, I managed to make a dent in my to-do list. My hope is to post something of interest every Saturday. Today’s post is an example of “When One Thing Leads to Another.”

Back in May, 2021, I was asked to moderate a virtual author chat with Paula McLain by the Friends of the East Gwillimbury Public Library. It’s my great honour to announce that I’ve been asked back, this time to hang out (virtually) with Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner Linden MacIntyre. We’ll be discussing his latest psychological drama, The Winter Wives. 

The event is limited to 100 attendees, so if you’re interested, sign up now. There are options for a ticket only $12 CAD or a ticket and signed copy (but you’d have to pick it up at an East Gwillimbury Public Library).

Here’s a link to an article in Newmarket Today.

And here’s what the critics are saying about The Winter Wives:

“Like all the other characters in this novel, the reader is also drawn into the wake of the enigmatic, Gatsby-like Allan Chase. Poignant, funny, at times shocking, The Winter Wives is a story about the hazards of memory, with a cracking great mystery at its heart.” —Gil Adamson, author of The Ridgerunner and The Outlander

“The Winter Wives tells a deceptively quiet story about friendship and secrets, which gradually reveals itself to be a gorgeous meditation on whether we can ever truly know the people we’ve loved the longest and the most.” —Lynn Coady, author of Watching You Without Me and Hellgoing

“Taut and absorbing, The Winter Wives is a layered story of love, deceit, friendship and identity. It is also a new kind of thriller, where dementia raises its head, and memory itself becomes a sly antagonist. Byron must navigate not only life-long romance and betrayal—but the hard knot that is his own complex mind. An elegant and fascinating book.” —Shaena Lambert, author of Petra and Radiance

“Longtime journalist MacIntyre . . . writes with an easy command of both the external world . . . and the internal world of complex and frequently conflicted characters. . . . The Winter Wives [is] a powerful, thought-provoking read.” —Toronto Star