Lesley Crewe’s The Spirit of Scatarie (pronounced Sca-tah-ree) is a well-written, fictional story about the real island of Scatarie, just off the northeastern tip of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and is told from the point of view of a spirit or ghost.
A Forest for Calum takes place in the 1950s and 60s rural Cape Breton.
Lillian Burke is not a household name. If Edward M. Langille, author of The Lillian Burke Story, had his way, that would change. Artist, reconstruction therapist, musician, teacher—American-born Burke was all of these. Though Burke lived the bulk of her life in the United States, she also had a Canadian connection. This came through Elsie …
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