“Part sweeping historical novel, part ghost story, part coming of age tale and part feminist rally cry, Patterson House is a novel that manages to do so much at once.”
– Amy Stuart, bestselling author of A Death at the Party
About my latest book: Patterson House
Alden Patterson, the last member of the Patterson family, lives in a decaying house in Toronto in the 1930s with Constance, a foundling, and John Hunt, an injured war veteran and the family’s former gardener. Although the Pattersons were once wealthy, William Patterson’s suicide left the family tainted. He is not at all at rest in his after-life and acts as a sometimes narrator and guide to the past, present and future. When Alden is reduced to taking in boarders, she thinks she has found a way to survive until the crash of 1929 leaves her truly desperate and one particular boarder threatens to destroy everything she thinks she wants.
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Land Acknowledgement
I am grateful to live and share stories on southern Vancouver Island, the traditional ancestral territories of the Lekwungen-speaking Peoples, in particular the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations whose relationship to the land continues to this day.
