Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and still deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father deserted him and his mother several years before. Alan's father's return brings tragedy to those around him.
- ISBN10 0773524894
- ISBN13 9780773524897
- Publish Date 25 December 2009 (first published 15 April 2003)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 16 November 2009
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 222
- Language English