Jean Laroche and I go back ages. We worked together at the CBC in Montreal - he as a radio reporter and I as the producer for Quebec for the CBC’s flagship news show, The National. Years later we both wound up in Halifax, still working for the CBC. Now, both retired, we’re working on friendship instead of news stories. Jean had read The Golden Daughter, loved it and invited me to speak to a group of other CBC’s retirees in Halifax. What a pleasure it was, not only to tell th

At the awards gala with Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor Mike Savage and event host Juanita Peters (right). I'm feeling so proud and so grateful. Last night at the Nova Scotia Book Awards Gala, The Golden Daughter was announced as the winner of the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award. The award commemorates the storied Nova Scotian author who won the 1945 Governor General’s Non-Fiction Award for We Keep A Light, her memoir of the 35 years she and her family spent as lighthouse

I just had the pleasure of reading an extract from The Golden Daughter at a wonderful event at Kings University in Halifax. It was billed as 'Writing The Truth: an Evening of Non-Fiction,' and was part of the whole Atlantic Book Awards celebration. I was one of five authors reading and being interviewed by host Simon Thibeault. Two of us were short-listed for the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award: myself for The Golden Daughter: My Mother's Secret Past as a Ukrainian Slave