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Books on Main reading
An enthusiastic crowd gathered on April 13th to hear readings from Finding Home and learn about the local connections to the story. Both Ruth and I talked about the fun of writing the novel together and shared some amusing anecdotes that happened along the way. Thank...
Review of Finding Home
A dialogue between the Past and Present
Historical fiction magnifies particular moments in time, provoking deeper thoughts about issues and opening a dialogue about how past circumstances may apply to our contemporary context. Finding Home is a novel set in the 1870s. How do its themes of: class...
Philanthropist Annie Macpherson
Annie Macpherson, a Scottish evangelical Quaker, was educated in Glasgow and London. Appalled by the poverty in London's East End, she set up several missions to provide meals and classes for children, and eventually opened the Home of Industry in Spitalfields, where...
Home Children
The Canadian government proclaimed 2010 The Year of the British Home Child, and issued a commemorative stamp to honour the thousands of waifs and orphans transplanted from the urban slums of England to Canada to work as cheap farm laborers or domestic servants. In...
Requesting Home Children Information
Finding Home follows the lives of two young people in early Canada. Sarah Phillips, a servant orphaned by cholera in 1869 London crosses the ocean desperately seeking her family. Richard Breeze, the disgraced son of an Ontario sawmill owner, must redeem himself in his...
Thank You
Many thanks to all of you who bought a copy of Finding Home as a gift or for your own personal reading enjoyment over the holidays. More copies are available at Novel Idea in Kingston, at Trousdale's General Store in Sydenham, at Books on Main in Bath––and, of course,...
Books on Main has copies of Finding Home
Books on Main is a wonderful, independently-owned bookstore in Bath, Ontario. Family-friendly and decorated for Christmas, this little gem welcomes everyone into its bright and airy space to shop for books, puzzles and other treasures. Support this local business by...