RAINDROPS AND SMOKE
In 1966 Robin set out for San Francisco to be a hippie. Now she’s 40, a United Church minister, married to her Buddhist husband, and having a nervous breakdown. In 1966 Leona ran away from the National Ballet School with a beautiful drug dealer and ended up pregnant and busted in South America. Now she’s 40 and about to be a grandmother. In 1966 Marjory went to San Francisco to look for her runaway daughter. Now she’s had a stroke and lives in vivid memories.
What was that all about? Love? Consciousness? Drugs? A bad dream? Is there nothing left to keep?
ISBN 0-9682477-0-9 Out of Print

CUTLASS TIME
“The novel opens with Lizbeth going to see a lawyer to find out what is in her husband’s will. She trips on a pothole in the gray pavement of a downtown Vancouver street and falls on her hands and knees. This ‘fall’ is symbolic of how Cutlass Time will unfold, for she immediately falls into reveries about the past. Indeed, one of the many strengths of this novel has to do with Covernton’s ability to travel back and forth through time without losing the reader…She no longer knows what to do with her life. Her uncertainty becomes acutely palpable after discovering that her husband’s will has set her up for life, which magnifies her sense of guilt…While recovering she mentally returns to Jamaica where, in the 1970s, she spent several idyllic months after ending her career with a semi-successful rock band. Jamaica, despite its wrenching poverty, is paradise to her. We are filled in on an intimate relationship she had with Peter, a native to that island. She thinks of him often, “cutlass in hand, chopping coconuts, cutting grass, working hard at living,” while she composes music on the terrace of a rented house. The cutlass is both a weapon and a tool, a dangerous implement that cuts both ways—through past and present, through delusions and realities, and this is the work being done by our protagonist…I’m amazed Cutlass Time wasn’t picked up by a large publisher here in Canada. Had it been written by Alice Munro, it would be hailed as a masterpiece.”
Ernest Hekkanen, The New Orphic Review.
ISBN 978-1-4357-0951-5
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THE MODERN AGE
Here’s what well-known Canadian writer Andreas Schroeder wrote about this novel:
“Just wanted to let you know how thoroughly I’m enjoying The Modern Age. I’ve rarely encountered such a compelling, engrossing, believable (and yet enticingly unreliable) narrative voice. I think it’s right up there with Laurence’s Stone Angel. I often found myself stopping, re-reading a passage, thinking about it, then carrying on.”

It was 1902… women didn’t go to medical school. But Mary Margaret was determined. She raised orchids to pay for it, dressed as a maN, travelled; she practised. Now it’s 1964… Mary Margaret wants to know what happened… to her life, to her beloved niece, to the shattered world.

ISBN 978-0-9682477-1-6
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