by Laurie Ness Gordon | May 27, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
Since some of the research for Finding Home took place at Upper Canada Village, it seems fitting that the novel has now found a home in The Village Store there. I visited this historic site yesterday and dropped off twenty-four copies of the book. I also had my...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Apr 15, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
An enthusiastic crowd gathered on April 13th to hear readings from Finding Home and learn about the local connections to the story. Both Ruth and I talked about the fun of writing the novel together and shared some amusing anecdotes that happened along the way. Thank...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Apr 9, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
Local authors bring historical Forest Mills to life in epic late-1800s...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Mar 8, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
Historical fiction magnifies particular moments in time, provoking deeper thoughts about issues and opening a dialogue about how past circumstances may apply to our contemporary context. Finding Home is a novel set in the 1870s. How do its themes of: class...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jan 13, 2024 | Writing
The Canadian government proclaimed 2010 The Year of the British Home Child, and issued a commemorative stamp to honour the thousands of waifs and orphans transplanted from the urban slums of England to Canada to work as cheap farm laborers or domestic servants. In...
