Hope as My Compass: A Memoir

'Hope as My Compass' is a best-selling memoir set in Canada and Australia...a stranger than fiction, true life story nominated for the National Biography Prize.On the cover, Bryce Courtenay says: 'story of hope and perseverance-when's the movie?'Starting life in an orphanage in Calgary, Catherine DeVrye was adopted by loving parents. When she was twenty-one, they both died of cancer, within a year of each other. An only child, Catherine packed her bags for a 3-month working holiday in Austr...