A Fragment of May

by Susan Cameron

In the summer of 1969 Anne Dunlop leaves her job teaching high school and the consequences of a broken romance behind her in Toronto and heads back to Halifax to embrace the comfort of home and family. By chance she lands a job at an inner city employment office. Her first clients are dayworkers, many of whom are still adjusting to the uneasy resettlement of their entire community to the neighbourhood due north of Citadel Hill. Anne, too, faces her own adjustments. Her widowed father has a new love in his life. And there is Serge, a charming military man who, unlike her, has a clear future ahead of him. But Anne’s greatest challenge arrives when she receives a letter from her dearest Aunt Adele, forcing her to consider who she really is and what she truly wants for her future.

298 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Gracie Bernasky · Rating 5 out of 5]

Susan Cameron has become a good friend of mine through being a regular customer at my work, and it was only fitting that this lovely novel be written by such a lovely person. As a young woman in Halifax also trying to figure out my life, I related very much to Anne, and found comfort in her journey. A very pleasant read, and a wonderfully written story.

[Deborah Denny · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book totally took me back to back to my life in the early seventies. It is a true to life account of a woman finding her way after university in Nova Scotia. A easy comforting book to read!