squeakyclean

by Jonathan Sprung

Joshua is trapped. Afraid of mediocrity, life, and children, he has only a wife and a cubicle. At thirty it's not what he wanted.


Sadie is a bright girl. She wants to do great things, if only she can get through school and escape her oppressive parents.


When they meet, they know they're bad for each other, but they set in motion the change that promises to liberate them.


squeakyclean is romance and historical fiction set in Montreal in 1997, during the events leading up to the ice storm that crippled the city.


Jonathan Sprung learned his craft at Concordia University in Montreal, studying joint honors in English and Creative Writing, and later in independent theater. He has participated in Montreal performance collectives such as PRETEXTE and The Mea Culpa Collective. At various times in his life he has acted, produced plays and cabarets, managed the stage, flown airplanes, operated tower cranes, painted works of art, planted trees in the north, and more recently represented a labor union as Business Representative. Squeakyclean was his first novel.

770 pages, Unknown Binding

First published April 1, 2005

About the author

Jonathan Sprung is a husband, father of three, writer, playwright, and artist.