About the Author
Donella Dunlop
is a writer, volunteer, teacher, artist, globe-trotter who
has lived in three Canadian provinces, Germany and England. The Scots, Irish,
Dutch, French, and Algonquin of her beloved Ottawa Valley are her family. Their
stories inspire her novels. She continues working on her Ottawa Valley Saga
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New Book
Decent People 
The scene is an Ottawa Valley
village. The tale flashes between the hungry thirties, the Second World War, and
the tentative fifties and early sixties. In Decent People the Protestants hate
the Catholics and the Catholics hate the Protestants and almost everyone hates
the Algonkins and, of course, everyone detests the soldiers from Petawawa. Yes,
this situation existed. Exists in some cases? Still?
Anna Dunkeld appeared in the Valley on the hottest day in Canadian history,
hatched in a nest of decent people. But can this stubborn, open hearted,
strangely rapt child, who lives in a world of stories with herself as hero and
the rest of the village as cast of characters, survive the discovery that not
everyone is good, not everyone in her beloved village, in her beloved Valley,
even in her own family is decent? Even the most wonderful story of all, her
Catholic religion, falls from grace. Since everyone knows that endings are
scarcely ever happy, this story ends with a happy beginning. Yes, they exist.
Still. |
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