by Laurie Ness Gordon | Apr 15, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
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...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Apr 9, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
Local authors bring historical Forest Mills to life in epic late-1800s...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Mar 8, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
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...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jan 14, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
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,...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jan 13, 2024 | Writing
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...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jan 6, 2024 | Finding Home, Writing
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...
