Carol Rifka Brunt

After university, Carol worked in America with elderly people with mental illness: she worked with men with head injuries, and for a time, living in British Columbia, she was a contributing copy editor for a newspaper.

“I started writing when my children were small,” she says.

Carol had several short stories published in literary journals before she embarked on her novel. “The novel grew from a 700-word story about a man who is dying, and his relationship with his niece,” she says. “He was painting a portrait of her to build their relationship before he left the world.”