A Gift of Echoes

About the Book

“There is a timeless quality about this powerful, complex novel which is impossible to pin down in a few words.” British Book News

“His comments on the way that people behave toward each other are savagely effective.” The Toronto Star

After the Second World War John Grandy returns to the village of Onion Lake where he once taught school, and to a job at the Acton lumber mill in northern British Columbia. Old Henry Acton is ill. Son, Nairn, and family have come to learn about the enterprise they will inherit. The destructive element is Velma, a former student of Grandy’s, whose struggle against her apparent destiny damages everyone. Innocent of intent but guilty of involvement of events, she and Grandy become centra

About the Author

Robert Harlow was born and brought up in a small town in the north of British Columbia. He flew Lancaster and Halifax bombers in WWll. As a graduate student he studied at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, then became a producer and director at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation before joining the faculty of The University of British Columbia, where he mentored young writers for twenty-three years. He now lives and writes on one of the Gulf Islands off Canada’s south-west coast.