About the Author

Morley Callaghan was the author of 15 novels, including The Loved and the Lost, Its Never Over, Strange Fugitive, and Such Is My Beloved, the classic memoir That Summer in Paris, and his stories are anthologized in Exile Editions’ four-volume set, The Complete Stories of Morley Callaghan. Over his 60-year career he also authored many short story collections, a drama, and literary essays and articles. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and received a host of honors in Canada, including the Governor General’s Award for Fiction.

Jane Urquhart is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories.

Reviews

“A single vision encompasses these people in all their self-contradictions, betrayals, nobility, bewilderment… every pattern leads out into a larger atmosphere of mercy and wonder.” —Margaret Avison

“The story poses in opposition disinterested love and practical use and teaches how ‘love’ must be flawed by ‘use,’ and how love must be preserved in a world set to destroy it.” —Commonwealth

"Literature I highly recommend it for middle school children, but I would recommend parents read it too, so they can talk about it with the young readers, can explain how things once were with people and pets - and sometimes still are." —Library Thing