If These Walls

In the 1940s, during a post-war housing crisis, an extraordinary feat took place in Moncton, New Brunswick. A local construction company, at the direction of Wartime Housing Limited, raised two hundred homes in record time, to give homes to the soldiers returning from war and to other locals in need.

If These Walls follows the families who built and moved into those homes, and through their stories shows how stable housing lays a foundation for generational safety and health in families and in broader communities—a surprisingly relevant and moving message today.

Such a Winter's Day

Discover the complicated and beautiful veneer of one person’s life while at the same time celebrating the meaningful arc of social change and evolving gay rights. This is a story of challenge, ambition, love and heartbreak and a story of acceptance, forgiveness, friendship and hope.

The ANNEtholology

Created by: Deirdre Kessler, Hope Dalvay, Judith Graves, Matthew Dawkins, Mere Joyce, Natasha Deen, Paul Coccia, Shari Green, Susan White, Susie Moloney

Join ten of Canada’s top young adult fiction writers as they set Canada’s favourite red-haired orphan, Anne Shirley, on brand new adventures. With its futuristic settings, cybernetic beings, ghosts, mysterious books and boxes, and racial and sexual diversity in its cast of characters, The ANNEthology offers serious “scope for the imagination” for all readers.

The Way I Feel

No Problem is too big to run away from.

Ginny Collins has never run away from anything-not her complicated family of origin, and not her lonely marriage. But when am old postcard falls out of her mother-in-law’s photo album, Ginny is overtaken with the need to do just that.

Jasper's Road

Life on the Walton Lake Road changes for Jasper Williams when Jake Turner moves to the farm to be fostered by Rachel and Ryan. Jasper finds his confidence shaken and the very essence of who he believes himself to be and where he belongs, undermined.

The Wright Retreat

The Wright Retreat is an irresistable celebration of story, friendship and the astonishing power of connection.

Skyward

A hopeful story about a crumbling dystopia, Skyward is a reminder of what happens when we put money before people, and how love is the best resistance.

When the Hill Came Down

When the Hill Came Down explores greed, jealousy, love, loyalty and the very fabric of a community full of stories whose threads intertwine.

Maple Sugar Pie

One family’s story of deep fractures, estrangement and a journey back to forgiveness.

Waiting for Still Water

A sweeping story of love and redemption.

Ten Thousand Truths

A moving story of losing family but finding a new one.

The Sewing Basket

Dealing with a parent’s illness can be difficult at any age.

The Year Mrs. Montague Cried

A touching, powerful story of family, loss and the healing power of narrative.

The Memory Chair

Sitting in Gram’s favorite chair, Betony is transported into the past and uncovers a terrible, shameful family secret.

Headliner

Franny Callaghan, just the awkward kid in a family that used to look like everyone else’s.

Fear of Drowning

An epic family saga set against the backdrop of two world wars, earthquakes, epidemics, predjudice, social injustice, greed and ambition.

ABOUT

Susan White

Susan White was born in New Brunswick and as a teenager her family moved to the Kingston Peninsula and she only left long enough to earn her BA and BEd at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. She and her husband raised four children and ran a small farm while she taught elementary school. Since retiring she is grateful to now have the time to work on her writing. She is the author of Waiting for Still Water, Maple Sugar Pie and four middle-grade novels, including the Ann Connor Brimer Award winning novel The Year Mrs. Montague Cried. 

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Book # 15

Book # 15

I always welcome a box of books when they arrive but especially look forward to receiving a box of new books. Today I anticipate such a box. Hopefully today or tomorrow a box will be delivered and set on the back veranda of the farmhouse I used to inhabit. In that house I crafted several of my...

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If These Walls…

If These Walls…

A few minutes ago I took the time to look around my office at all the posters showing my book covers. These walls are not the same walls of the two different rooms I crafted my first few novels but are the walls that now surround me when I sit to write. I am so thankful for these walls and the...

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Seasons of Change and Challenge

Seasons of Change and Challenge

Spring is here according to the calendar but the temperature seems to be saying something different. Last Tuesday I happily went about setting up the furniture in my gazebo but so far only one morning has been warm enough for me to eat my breakfast and have my coffee journal time out there. I...

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