Random Fact
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A new voice from Newfoundland and Labrador, Michelle Butler Hallett writes about power, love and the weights of recognition. The human condition is at once funny and sad, gentle and violent.
Double-blind
Enter Christy Monroe, one of Bozeman’s favourite patients, a nine-year-old girl with an extraordinary psychic gift. She becomes Bozeman’s subject in a SHIP double-blind experiment where the whole reality is dangerously obscure, blurring the lines between patient and doctor, duty and conscience, sanity and madness. Twenty-five years later, Bozeman is drawn into an even darker paranormal agenda that sends him back to Newfoundland as the principal player in an endgame that could have mortal consequences for Christy, or for his own soul.
The shadow side of grace
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New Release Available Now "a rare debut, a collection that takes more risks than some writers take in a lifetime." -Michael Crummey |
It’s the 1970s, the final icy winter of the Cold War. American psychiatrist Josh Bozeman finds himself in St. John’s as part of covert research group SHIP, the Society for Human Improvement and Potential. But SHIP defines "improvement" and "potential" as anything that can be forged into a weapon. 
Two Russian cousins seek to heal the wounds that push the bones of their dead to
the surface. An accomplished journalist uses scalding teabags to tame memory and
guilt over her role in the fall of a Tiger Moth from fog. The victim of a brutal
rape, abandoned to madness, finds solace in her spectral child. A 19th-century
British officer is afflicted with a demon and must grapple with complicity in a
tiny village on the Rideau Canal where, generations later, numb parents struggle
with the disappearance of their daughters. 
