A graduate of SFU's The Writer's Studio, Joan B. Flood's latest novel, Left Unsaid (Signature Editions 2018) is about a family re-connecting. Delia Buckley was abandoned by the father of her daughter, Daniel Wolfe, when he walked out before their child was born. Wolfe suddenly shows up twenty-two years later, wanting Delia to nurse him in his terminal illness. Delia accepts since she is desperate for money, hoping to keep a professional distance. But life has a way of interfering in the best laid plans. Set in an Irish village where it's hard to keep everyone's natural curiosity at bay and gossip is served up for breakfast, Delia confronts the arrival of Wolfe's daughter from Vancouver. More mysterious guests arrive making the secrets of the past hard to hide. Publicity for the book describes it as a "family drama"; that "explores how our choices - and our mistakes - echo through generations.";

Flood grew up in Limerick, Ireland and lived in France and England before settling in Vancouver. Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in anthologies including Room of One's Own, By Word of Mouth, Emerge, and Lesbian Bedtime Stories. Her Young Adult novel New Girl (Musa Publishing) won the Orpheus Fiction Contest.

BOOKS:

Left Unsaid (Signature Editions 2018) $19.95 978-1773240-09-1

New Girl (Musa Publishing)

 

[BCBW 2018]