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By Chris Turner, Michael Adams, Will Ferguson, Gare Joyce, Jody Mitic. 2017
The Look Book offers a sample of groundbreaking and exciting new books on the Fall 2017 Simon & Schuster Canada…
list. Dip into the latest masterwork from the winner of Canada’s top fiction prize. Hear stories from Canada’s courageous veterans. Consider the future of our country with an investigation into the oil sands and a look at the risks Canadians face in the wake of Brexit and Donald Trump. And because it’s not Fall in Canada without talking hockey, curl up with a book about our country’s most notable sports team. With chapter excerpts from the following Fall 2017 new releases: The Shoe on the Roof, by Will Ferguson Everyday Heroes: Inspirational Stories from Men and Women in the Canadian Armed Forces, by Jody Mitic The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands, by Chris Turner Could It Happen Here? Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit, by Michael Adams Young Leafs: The Making of a New Hockey History, by Gare Joyce Look back, look around, and look forward. Happy Reading! The Team at Simon & Schuster Canada If you would like to learn more about any of our authors or the titles featured, please visit us at SimonandSchuster.ca, follow us on Twitter at @SimonSchusterCA, or like us at Facebook.com/SimonandSchusterCanada.By Jennifer Robson. 2019
Perfect for anyone who's captivated by The Crown, The Gown 'will dazzle and delight' (Independent)!The Gown is an enthralling historical…
novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth century - Queen Elizabeth's wedding gown - and the fascinating women who made it. London, 1947: Besieged by a harsh winter, burdened by shortages and rationing, the people of post-war Britain are suffering despite their nation's recent victory. For Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell, a glimmer of brightness comes in the form of their unlikely friendship and being chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honour: taking part in the creation of Princess Elizabeth's wedding gown. Toronto, 2016: Heather Mackenzie seeks to unravel the mystery of a legacy from her late grandmother. How did her beloved nan, who never spoke of her old life in Britain, come to possess the priceless embroideries that so closely resemble the motifs on the stunning gown worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her wedding almost seventy years before? And what was her nan's connection to the celebrated textile artist and Holocaust survivor Miriam Dassin?With The Gown, Jennifer Robson takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was created to tell a story of women whose lives are woven together by the pain of survival, the bonds of friendship, and the redemptive power of love.'Robson succeeds in creating a riveting drama of female friendship, of lives fully lived despite unbearable loss, and of the steadfast effort required to bring forth beauty after surviving war' Independent'A great tale of female friendship' The People's FriendBy Amita Parikh. 2022
THE MAGICAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Brought together by magic. Torn apart by war. 'A magical, vibrant parade of a novel about…
extraordinary people finding light in history's darkest decades. Spellbinding stuff' ERIN KELLY 'DAZZLING' Ellen Keith 'SUPERB' Reader Review (5 stars) 'EXTRAORDINARY' Kristin Harmel'PHENOMENAL' Reader Review (5 stars)'CAPTIVATING' Constance Sayers 'MESMERIZING' Reader Review (5 stars)'SPELLBINDING' Carol Windley _________Europe, 1938. Even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the World of Wonders - a travelling circus that traverses the continent in a luxury steam engine. Brilliant and curious, Lena yearns for the real-world magic of science and medicine, despite the limitations she feels in her wheelchair. But when a young French orphan, Alexandre, comes aboard the circus train, Lena's life is infused with magic and wonder for the first time.But outside the bright lights of the circus, darkness is descending on Europe. War is about to shatter Lena's world, and take away everything she holds dear. And to recover what she has lost, Lena will have to believe in the impossible. A must-read for fans of Water for Elephants, The Circus Train will take readers on a heart-wrenching two-decade journey across a continent in which great beauty and unimaginable horror live side by side. _________'BEAUTIFUL' Reader Review (5 stars)'POWERFUL' Pam Jenoff 'DELIGHTFUL' Reader Review (5 stars) 'TRIUMPHANT' Lorelei Savaryn'EXQUISITE' Reader Review (5 stars)By Tammar Stein. 2020
It's Yom Kippur Eve in 1973, and twelve-year-old Beni thinks his biggest problem is settling in at his new school…
in the Golan, where his family moved at the end of the Six-Day War. But on Yom Kippur, shocking news comes over the radio: a stunning strike on Israel has begun, led by a coalition of Arab states. In the blink of an eye, Beni's older brother Motti is off to war, leaving Beni behind with his mother and father. As bombs drop around Beni and his family, they flee to safety, every day hoping for news of Motti and the developments of the war. Beni must find a way to aid the war effort in his own way, proving that he too can be a hero, even as he learns along the way that there is dignity in every person, including the people he considers the enemy.By Nona Fernández. 2016
* Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature *An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes…
by the author of Space InvadersIt is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández’s mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man’s face on the magazine’s cover with the words “I Tortured People.” His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian. Like a secret service agent from the future, through extraordinary feats of the imagination, Fernández follows the “man who tortured people” to places that archives can’t reach, into the sinister twilight zone of history where morning routines, a game of chess, Yuri Gagarin, and the eponymous TV show of the novel’s title coexist with the brutal yet commonplace machinations of the regime.How do crimes vanish in plain sight? How does one resist a repressive regime? And who gets to shape the truths we live by and take for granted? The Twilight Zone pulls us into the dark portals of the past, reminding us that the work of the writer in the face of historical erasure is to imagine so deeply that these absences can be, for a time, spectacularly illuminated.By Martín Caparrós. 1992
Aunque fue la segunda en publicarse, No velas a tus muertos es la primera novela escrita por Martín Caparrós durante…
su exilio en Francia y España, entre 1979 y 1981. Aunque fue la segunda en publicarse, No velas a tus muertos es la primera novela escrita por Martín Caparrós durante su exilio en Francia y España. Además de desplegar una gran variedad de recursos técnicos -la escritura del diario íntimo, el fluir de la conciencia o las acotaciones típicas del guion cinematográfico- su atmósfera tan envolvente como certera parece inspirada en la de los mejores cuentos de Julio Cortázar. Entre retaceos sexuales, plenarios de «las orgas», cine arte, «luche y vuelve», canciones de los Beatles y los primeros cigarrillos Particulares, la ópera prima de Caparrós no solo demuestra una madurez y una soltura poco frecuentes, también logra testimoniar, desde la ficción y con ese título lleno de resonancias, uno de los grandes temas de su obra: los setenta y el lugar que, contra todos los obstáculos, antes y durante los años de plomo, los últimos jóvenes intentaron conseguir. Críticas:«No velas a tus muertos es un acercamiento a los hechos desde la ficción, pero con elementos que subrayan su afán testimonial. La voluntad, obra que también toma como referente la militancia política en Buenos Aires en los años setenta, es el anverso y el complemento de la novela»".Laura Destéfanis, Universidad de Granada «Caparróses colosal en esos terrenos resbaladizos donde las cosas dejan de encajar en los moldes correctos».Leila Guerriero, Babelia «Deslumbrante. Obra mayor y definitiva».Joaquín Marco, El Mundo «Martín Caparrós no es de esos que te dicen lo que quieres escuchar. Sería más bien del campo contrario: esos que te tiran a la cara lo que rechazas y escondes».Oriane Jeancourt, Transfuge «Un perturbador sistemático, un sembrador de dudas».Francesca Lazzarato, Il Manifesto «Caparrós es una manera de ver y entender el mundo».Carles Geli, BabeliaBy Guinevere Glasfurd. 2020
1815, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia Mount Tambora explodes in a cataclysmic eruption, killing thousands. Sent to investigate, ship surgeon Henry Hoggcan…
barely believe his eyes. Once a paradise, the island is now solid ash, the surrounding sea turned to stone. But worse is yet to come: as the ash cloud rises and covers the sun, the seasons will fail. 1816In Switzerland, Mary Shelley finds dark inspiration. Confined inside by the unseasonable weather, thousands of famine refugees stream past her door. In Vermont, preacher Charles Whitlock begs his followers to keep faith as drought dries their wells and their livestock starve. In Suffolk, the ambitious and lovesick painter John Constable struggles to reconcile the idyllic England he paints with the misery that surrounds him. In the Fens, farm labourer Sarah Hobbs has had enough of going hungry while the farmers flaunt their wealth. And Hope Peter, returned from the Napoleonic wars, finds his family home demolished and a fence gone up in its place. He flees to London, where he falls in with a group of revolutionaries who speak of a better life, whatever the cost. As desperation sets in, Britain becomes beset by riots—rebellion is in the air. The Year Without Summer is the story of the books written, the art made; of the journeys taken, of the love longed for and the lives lost during that fateful year. Six separate lives, connected only by an event many thousands of miles away. Few had heard of Tambora—but none could escape its effects.By Martín Caparrós. 2005
En Ansay ó los infortunios de la gloria, Martín Caparrós nos cuenta las aventuras y desventuras de Faustino Ansay, los…
hechos y reflexiones que anota en sus memorias y que el autor crea especialmente. Publicada en el año 1984, Ansay ó los infortunios de la gloria aborda el proceso de independencia nacional iniciado en 1810 desde un punto de vista original: el de Faustino Ansay, un militar español que pasó por las cárceles de la Revolución de Mayo y lo contó en unas memorias que sirven de contrapunto al compendio de mitos, relatos y luchas que crearon la Argentina. Esas memorias se resignifican aquí junto a escritos de Mariano Moreno, las cartas sin respuesta de su esposa María Guadalupe Cuenca, los delirios de un conquistador que nunca fue y la intimidad de un narrador que comenta las dificultades de escribir una novela; un conjunto heterogéneo ensamblado mediante un registro preciso y precioso, heredero de nuestra mejor literatura. Críticas:«En Ansay quedan ya cifradas muchas de las pulsiones que en su narrativa posterior matizaría, ampliaría, reformularía; sin embargo, acaso la más relevante sea la voluntad de hallar un nuevo lenguaje para narrar la historia».Christian Snoey Abadías, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona«Martín Caparrós, uno de los más geniales cronistas contemporáneos, depura de manera exquisita, emocionada, vibrante y distanciada una prosa de un poderío narrativo excepcional».Fernando R. Lafuente, ABC Cultural «Su prosa y su mirada son un reactivo fuerte para almas sensibles o amigas de lo políticamente correcto».Leila Guerriero, El País«Caparrós provoca esa necesidad sonriente de subrayar, compartir en redes, reproducir sus trallazos».Nadal Suau, El Cultural «Caparrós es una manera de ver y entender el mundo».Carles Geli, Babelia «Es una obra rica y ambiciosa, una empresa arriesgada que debe ser conocida».Juan GoytisoloBy Lorena Salazar Masso. 2021
'In this dazzling and moving debut, Lorena Salazar takes us to the heart of the Colombian jungle and shows us,…
with an enveloping and addictive prose, sorority in its purest form and the brutal contrasts of human nature'Fernanda Melchor, author of Hurricane Season'A novel of breathtaking landscapes and an accurate portrait of mothers' fears, and of violence, always latent, like a wild beast lurking in the dark'Pilar Quintana, author of The BitchIn the city of Quibdó, a mother and her child embark on a canoe trip down the mighty Atrato River, the only route that allows them to penetrate the thick Colombian jungle. The journey is long, slowed down by several stops. As the small boat proceeds along the river, surrounded by mangroves, the mother tells a fellow passenger the story of how the little one came into her life and why the two of them are travelling along the Atrato. But as the boat advances, the mother's anxiety grows: she would rather not arrive, or turn around altogether. And in a country at war with itself, there is often something dark lurking in the shadows - something much more devastating that a family reunion. 'A brilliant debut novel' VogueBy Lorena Salazar Masso. 2021
'In this dazzling and moving debut, Lorena Salazar takes us to the heart of the Colombian jungle and shows us,…
with an enveloping and addictive prose, sorority in its purest form and the brutal contrasts of human nature'Fernanda Melchor, author of Hurricane Season'A novel of breathtaking landscapes and an accurate portrait of mothers' fears, and of violence, always latent, like a wild beast lurking in the dark'Pilar Quintana, author of The BitchIn the city of Quibdó, a mother and her child embark on a canoe trip down the mighty Atrato River, the only route that allows them to penetrate the thick Colombian jungle. The journey is long, slowed down by several stops. As the small boat proceeds along the river, surrounded by mangroves, the mother tells a fellow passenger the story of how the little one came into her life and why the two of them are travelling along the Atrato. But as the boat advances, the mother's anxiety grows: she would rather not arrive, or turn around altogether. And in a country at war with itself, there is often something dark lurking in the shadows - something much more devastating that a family reunion. 'A brilliant debut novel' VogueThe Sewing Factory Girls is Posy Lovell's heartwarming and moving novel inspired by the brave, hardworking women who fought to…
improve working conditions at the Singer Factory in Clydebank. It is an uplifting and emotional novel of friendship and courage, for readers who enjoy fiction based on real-life stories. Like half of all the young women living in Clydebank in early 1911, Ellen works at the sewing machine factory. So does her big sister, Bridget, Bridget's fiancé Malcolm, and her new friend Sadie, who has come to work at the factory after the death of her father. For Sadie, the factory is a way to make ends meet, but Ellen has sewing in her veins. She is even making Bridget's wedding dress on her beloved sewing machine. But after the excitement of the wedding dies down, everything changes. Ellen discovers that the work of the cabinet polishers - her job - is to be reorganised, and they will be doing more work for less pay. Ellen feels betrayed - the sewing factory is her family and they've let her down. Sadie is more pragmatic. But the women aren't going to give in without a fight. They've been reading about strikes and they've got an idea - much to the disgust of manager Malcolm. Meanwhile, Bridget, forced to choose between her husband and her sister, has made a new friend and is fighting her own battle, alongside the suffragettes. The events of the strike will throw Ellen, Bridget and Sadie's lives into turmoil but also bring these women closer to each other than they could ever have imagined.By Montague Kobbé. 2013
"Colorful detours into native lore, such as a rich Dutchman's fabled courtship of a local beauty, strike grace notes that…
echo Marquez...readers...will be rewarded with the little-known tale of how the underdog country demanded its own place in the 20th century."--Publishers WeeklyBest Book of 2013 Selection, The Airship/Black Balloon Publishing"With tremendous humanity and humor, the novel articulates these themes through the power of the relationships and the urgency each character demonstrates in this quest for self-determination."--The Caribbean Writer"This is a book about revolution and the underdog, about a small, isolated island fighting for recognition, opportunity and justice; it is a compelling tale about a curious historical episode, but also a vital look at priorities, perspective and the right to live in dignity, issues that, much like Anguilla's rebellion of 1967, are all too easily forgotten."--The Island Review"[Readers] will be rewarded with deeper insight into the political and economic turmoil engulfing that region."--Historical Novel Society"Revolution and historic change--words that can remain detached concepts unless we can somehow connect them with their human face and the lives behind them. This is what first-time novelist Montague Kobbé achieves in marvelous style and depth in The Night of the Rambler--weaving a Caribbean tapestry of places, wider events, the individuals shaped by them, and how they ultimately come together to shape events themselves in the times leading to a revolution on Anguilla in 1967."--Maco Magazine"Vivid...funny, and thoughtful. Much like the revolution it covers, it's compelling."--Columbia College Chicago/The Review Lab"However unusual this revolution is, it is a prelude to Anguilla's eventual divorce from St. Kitts and Nevis, before becoming a separate British territory; its unconventional LOL factor could diversify an elective college course on revolutions with something bloody peaceful."--New PagesOn June 9, 1967, sixteen men from Anguilla, a forgotten island in the Caribbean, set sail aboard a thirty-five-foot sloop, the Rambler, to make the night-time journey to St. Kitts, where they intended to carry out a coup d'état and install a new government sympathetic to their separatist cause. Set against the turbulent background of world politics in the sixties, The Night of the Rambler tells the story of a misinformed and misconceived plan, carried out incompetently by a group of scarcely trained and ill-equipped amateurs who escape calamity by mere coincidence. And yet, somehow, the main purpose of their mission, the furtherance of Anguilla's struggle to dissociate itself from the newly formed state of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla and to return to the British colonial fold, is significantly strengthened by this, quite possibly the most outrageous episode in the history of revolutions.Loosely based on the historical facts surrounding the Anguilla Revolution of 1967, The Night of the Rambler unfolds across the fifteen hours that lapse between the moment when the "rebels" board the motorboat that will take them across the strait to St. Kitts, and the break of dawn the following day, when it becomes obvious that the unaccomplished mission will have to be aborted. The novel consciously moves away from the "historical" category, purposely altering at will the sequence of "facts" narrated, collating fully fictional episodes with vaguely accurate anecdotes and replacing the protagonists with fictional characters. At turns highly dramatic and hilarious, Kobbé brings deep honesty to the often-unexamined righteousness of revolution.With echoes of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Mario Vargas Llosa's Conversation in the Cathedral, The Night of the Rambler touches upon the universal topics of freedom and self-determination with humor and sensibility, creating an alternative reality that is informed by real lifBy Anthony C. Winkler. 2007
In this outrageously out-of-order, hilarious novel, the reader discovers that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman,…
and that goodness and forgiveness may be rarer qualities, found in unexpected places.Aloysius is tolerated by neighbors but forced to eke out a living by doing odd jobs, using the hospitable woodlands for shelter. He is starved of human companionship; instead he has running conversations with trees and plants. Then love, or a peculiar version of it, comes to Aloysius in the form of a solidly built German lady, Inga Schmidt, who has come to Jamaica to photograph the flora and fauna.By Carmen Boullosa. 2001
A young woman encounters strange events in her Mexican hometown in this novel by an author who “immerses us…in her…
wickedly funny and imaginative world” (Latina).Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming of age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in Agustini, in the Mexican province of Tabasco. In Agustini it is not unusual to see your grandmother float above the bed when she sleeps, or to purchase torrential rains at a traveling fair, or to watch your family’s elderly serving woman develop stigmata, then disappear completely, to be canonized as a local saint. But as Delmira becomes a woman, she will set out on a search for her missing father, and must make a choice that could mean leaving her home forever, in a tale filled with both depth and delightful mystery that poses questions about just how real the real world is. “To flee Agustini is to leave not just a town but the viscerally primal dreamscape it represents.”— The New York Times Book Review“Vibrant…Each chapter is an adventure.”—The Boston Globe“We happily share with [Delmira] her life, including the infinitely charming town she inhabits [and] her grandmother’s fantastic imagination.”—The Washington Post Book WorldBy Chris Abani. 2007
Part Inferno, part Paradise Lost, and part Sunjiata epic, Song for Night is the story of a West African boy…
soldier’s lyrical, terrifying, yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon. The reader is led by the voiceless protagonist who, as part of a land mine-clearing platoon, had his vocal chords cut, a move to keep these children from screaming when blown up, and thereby distracting the other minesweepers. The book is written in a ghostly voice, with each chapter headed by a line of the unique sign language these children invented. This book is unlike anything else ever written about an African war.By Hillel Halkin, A. B. Yehoshua. 2001
Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often naïve curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a…
district judge, is tolerant of almost everything but her husband's faults and prevarications. Frequent arguments aside, they are a well-adjusted couple with two grown sons.When one of Rivlin's students-a young Arab bride from a village in the Galilee-is assigned to help with his research in recent Algerian history, a two-pronged mystery develops. As they probe the causes of the bloody Algerian civil war, Rivlin also becomes obsessed with his son's failed marriage.Rivlin's search leads to a number of improbable escapades. In this comedy of manners, at once deeply serious and highly entertaining, Yehoshua brilliantly portrays characters from disparate sectors of Israeli life, united above all by a very human desire for, and fear of, the truth in politics and life.By Stephen Birmingham. 1958
Bestselling author Stephen Birmingham's debut novel Young Mr. Keefe is the deftly plotted story of a young New England man…
who decides to find his fortunes out west, in 1950s California.By Evelio Rosero. 2009
In a small town in the mountains of Colombia, Ismael, a retired teacher, spends his mornings gathering oranges in the…
sunshine and spying on his neighbour as she sunbathes naked in her garden.Returning from a walk one morning he discovers that his wife has disappeared. Then more people go missing, and not-so-distant gunfire signals the approach of war. Most of the villagers make their escape, but Ismael cannot leave without his Otilia. He becomes an unwilling witness to the senseless civil war that sweeps through his country with a tragic inevitability. In The Armies Rosero has created a hallucinatory, relentless, captivating narrative often as violent as the events it describes, told by an old man battered by a reality he no longer recognizes.By Robert Antoni. 2013
In 1845 London, an engineer, philosopher, philanthropist, and bold-faced charlatan, John Adolphus Etzler, has invented machines that he thinks will…
transform the division of labor and free all men. He forms a collective called the Tropical Emigration Society (TES), and recruits a variety of London citizens to take his machines and his misguided ideas to form a proto-socialist, utopian community in the British colony of Trinidad. Among his recruits is a young boy (and the book's narrator) named Willy, who falls head-over-heels for the enthralling and wise Marguerite Whitechurch. Coming from the gentry, Marguerite is a world away from Willy's laboring class. As the voyage continues, and their love for one another strengthens, Willy and Marguerite prove themselves to be true socialists, their actions and adventures standing in stark contrast to Etzler's disconnected theories.Robert Antoni's tragic historical novel, accented with West Indian cadence and captivating humor, provides an unforgettable glimpse into nineteenth-century Trinidad & Tobago. Winner of the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize!By Suzanne Kelman. 2020
The face of the woman in the photograph was tilted upwards, as if enjoying the sunshine just for a moment,…
even as the wreckage of the bombed-out street lay behind her… 1944, Cornwall: Blinded by love, Vivienne Hamilton eloped to Paris with a Nazi prisoner-of-war, never to be seen again. A disgrace to her family, her name would not be mentioned by any of her relatives for over 75 years. Present day, London: When Sophie discovers a photograph of her great aunt Vivi from World War Two, it throws her into a world of confusion. Because, as she learns about this secret relative, she quickly realises that the photograph doesn&’t fit with her family&’s story. It shows Vivi leaving an address associated with a spy network in London – a place she had no reason to be – and it is dated right before she disappeared. Meanwhile Sophie&’s own life feels as blasted and bombed as the blitzed city in the photograph she&’s looking at. Her beautiful daughter – as full of joy and wild energy as Vivi had apparently once been – is gone; and Sophie&’s heart has been left broken into pieces. Retreating to the family home in rural Cornwall to seek solace from her pain and the feelings of guilt that she could have done more to protect her daughter, Sophie finds herself becoming obsessed with Vivi&’s life. But nothing can prepare Sophie for what she is about to uncover – the story of a woman who risked everything for the person she loved the most; and a secret family history that could be the key to Sophie&’s own future. A powerful, haunting and unforgettable read about love, heartbreak and betrayal set in Second World War Britain and France. Perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Under a Scarlet Sky and My Name is Eva. Readers are loving When We Were Brave:&‘If only there were more than 5 stars to give, I would not hesitate… Heartbreaking and inspiring… the pages turn quickly… I know I will think often of this book.&’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars &‘Oh my goodness I loved this book!!!… A beautifully woven time-slip novel… This story and its characters will stay with me.&’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars &‘Wow! Just wow! This book kept me on the edge of my seat right from the get-go!... [An] amazing story.&’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars &‘A fantastic novel… Historical fiction at its best. Characters that you fall in love with, a story you will hate to end.&’ NetGalley Reviewer &‘Having read A View Across the Rooftops, I was hooked on this FANTASTIC author. When We Were Brave is another OUTSTANDING piece of fantastic writing… I have nothing but total admiration…