Hearts of Flame

by Katherine Govier

Overview

When the folk rock group Hearts of Flame broke up Ruby and the other members gravitate from Alberta to Toronto. The booming city at the end of the eighties offers all these outsiders a way to thrive. Then Ruby disappears. The police fail to turn up any leads. From the glass towers of Toronto's business elite to the shattered dreams of the city's street people, Blair searches for her friend. She finds only questions. Portrait of a city and a generation, HEARTS OF FLAME is a novel about friendship and loss.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781927403129
Publisher:	Iguana Books
Publication date:	07/04/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	444 KB

About the Author

Katherine Govier has published nine novels and three short story collections. Her most recent novel THE GHOST BRUSH (THE PRINTMAKER'S DAUGHTER, in the US) is about a famous lost woman artist, Oei, the daughter of Hokusai, creator of The Great Wave. Her novel Creation, about John James Audubon in Labrador, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003. Katherine's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the UK, the US, throughout the Commonwealth, and in translation in Holland, Italy, Turkey, and Slovenia. She is the winner of Canada's Marian Engel Award for a woman writer (1997) and the Toronto Book Award (1992). She is also the editor of two collections of travel essays and the director of the Shoe Project with the Bata Shoe Museum. She lives in Toronto with her partner, a food and wine publisher, and their dog Jasper. She is a two-time black belt in classical martial arts and a tai chi practitioner.