Winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize for Nonfiction
Winner of the 2016 OLA Evergreen Award
Nominated for the 2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Nonfiction
Nominated for the 2015 Leacock Medal for Humor
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I am reading your book and enjoying it very much. I love your story-telling skills and humour. What foresight on page 126 where you talk about euthanasia. We are experiencing that right now with medically-assisted dying (and indirectly with Covid-19).
I have just finished reading your book ,” They Left us Everything”. I grew up on the wrong side of the Oakville tracks at about the time you did. I was in the first grade 9 class for the opening of Blakelock High School. My parents were the same vintage as yours so it was easy to identify with the thinking of that era. Your dad was a warden at St Jude’s at the same time mine was doing the same thing at St Aidans. In fact, your dad’s family was from Tonbridge as was my dad’s family! I feel sad that your father was not able to be treated for what today would be labeled PTSD. Two of my uncles went through life after the war carrying the same kinds of burden. I feel envy you the closeness with which you and your siblings were able with work on the closing of the home. Ours was nothing as grand but I wish there had been the same spirit among us. At any rate, I thoroughly enjoyed your book and thank you for sharing your story.