Matters of Hart
McArthur & Company, 2005
When a stranger
crashes Hart Granger's 50th birthday party, the shock sends him reeling. Not
only is this man from Vermont Hart's half-brother - the child their mother put
up for adoption before she was married - he's also the bizarre incarnation of a
lie Hart told his little sister when they were kids. "We had an older
brother named Bill," teenaged Hart once whispered to five-year-old Amanda.
He had to leave the family to make room for you . . ." Set in Montreal, Los
Angeles and Vancouver, Matters of Hart is a picaresque tale about sibling
rivalry, the joys and pains of family ties.
Jump
McArthur & Company, 2000
Set during the
1995 referendum in Quebec, Jump follows the story of Myra Grant, a free-lance
journalist and theatre buff who faces an empty nest and an inner call for
change. Dragged down by friends and enemies alike, weary from decades of single
motherhood, she breaks loose from an old life and embraces a new.