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Drift Child
Emma Phillips is a 35-year-old divorcée with
an undemanding job, a rustic old house, and a friend who provides all the
benefits she needs. She’s comfortable, complacent, and accustomed to getting
her own way—until she is shipwrecked during a violent storm in the Queen
Charlotte Strait off Vancouver Island and is forced to assume temporary
guardianship of three traumatized, newly orphaned children. From
the author of The Goat Lady’s Daughter comes a moving new
story, set against the rugged backdrop of coastal British Columbia, of a woman
determined to manage her own destiny, and a child whose own strong nature
defies those who would take control of her fate.
an undemanding job, a rustic old house, and a friend who provides all the
benefits she needs. She’s comfortable, complacent, and accustomed to getting
her own way—until she is shipwrecked during a violent storm in the Queen
Charlotte Strait off Vancouver Island and is forced to assume temporary
guardianship of three traumatized, newly orphaned children. From
the author of The Goat Lady’s Daughter comes a moving new
story, set against the rugged backdrop of coastal British Columbia, of a woman
determined to manage her own destiny, and a child whose own strong nature
defies those who would take control of her fate.
231 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 2010
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About the author
Rosella M. Leslie
8 booksAlthough I was born in Edmonton my childhood was spent in small towns of central Alberta, north central British Columbia, the Fraser Valley and the Sunshine Coast.In 1967 I graduated from Elphinstone Senior Secondary School in Gibsons, BC. Post secondary education included training as a Medical Records Technician.
Having decided to make writing the focus of my life, in the fall of 1980 I moved into a rent-free floathouse at Clowhom Falls, a small settlement 25 miles by boat from Sechelt,BC. There I began plunking out stories on an ancient Remington manual typewriter. Since then I have attended writing festivals, workshops with Ian Slater and Daniel Wood, and on-going tutorials with Betty C. Keller and the Quintessential Writing Group.
In 1986 I won the BC Writer's Federation, Best of BC Writing Competiton. My feature articles and fictional stories have been published in Western People Magazine Fiction, The Leader, Alive Magazine and Coast News Weekender.> I am a co-author with Betty Keller of , and (Horsdal & Schubart, 1996), for which we won third prize in the 1997 BC Historical Writing Competition. In 2005 I was also a co-author of (Harbour Publishing),which won the Roderick Haig Brown Regional Prize. A year later I published my first novel, (NeWest Press).
Today I live on the Sunshine Coast where I write, hike, garden, and fish the local inlets with my husband, John, and sometimes with my son, Nathan.
Having decided to make writing the focus of my life, in the fall of 1980 I moved into a rent-free floathouse at Clowhom Falls, a small settlement 25 miles by boat from Sechelt,BC. There I began plunking out stories on an ancient Remington manual typewriter. Since then I have attended writing festivals, workshops with Ian Slater and Daniel Wood, and on-going tutorials with Betty C. Keller and the Quintessential Writing Group.
In 1986 I won the BC Writer's Federation, Best of BC Writing Competiton. My feature articles and fictional stories have been published in Western People Magazine Fiction, The Leader, Alive Magazine and Coast News Weekender.> I am a co-author with Betty Keller of , and (Horsdal & Schubart, 1996), for which we won third prize in the 1997 BC Historical Writing Competition. In 2005 I was also a co-author of (Harbour Publishing),which won the Roderick Haig Brown Regional Prize. A year later I published my first novel, (NeWest Press).
Today I live on the Sunshine Coast where I write, hike, garden, and fish the local inlets with my husband, John, and sometimes with my son, Nathan.
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December 21, 2011
This was a nice quick read with lovable characters and a showing of how when we open ourselves up to being bigger and better people, we have the ability to change lives.
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December 30, 2025
I stayed up late to finish this. I appreciated the likeable and sometimes eccentric BC characters, the description of Island life with its danger and rustic living woven easily into the narrative, and the sentiment that people can do good in the world even when it inconveniences them. This story was a nice change from standard fair.
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