Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Vandal Love

By D.Y. Béchard

The haunting story of the Hervé family – cursed by a genetic fluke that causes them to become either giants or “runts” – provides the impetus for a compelling first novel by Montréal author D.Y. ... Read More »

February 13, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sympathy

By Dede Crane

The dancer is like a wounded swan, her graceful neck bowed in the catatonic state that followed the gruesome deaths of her son and husband in a car accident. She is admitted to the Rosewood ... Read More »

February 6, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blood Sports

By Eden Robinson

In a recent interview with the Toronto Star, author Michael Redhill confessed that he has become “less married to mainstream, lyrical kinds of writing … I would like to have the courage to make less ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dry

By Barbara Sapergia; $, pp.,

The year is 2023 and global climate change has led to massive drought. Dry tells the story of Signy and Tomas Nilsson, a brother and sister farming their great-grandmother’s land, and Magnus Dragland, who owns ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Relative Happiness

By Lesley Crewe

Lesley Crewe’s Relative Happiness traces the life of Lexie Ivy, a self-deprecating woman who has been subtly convinced by her mother and four competing sisters that she is unattractive and therefore incapable of finding true ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels