Inundation Day

About this book

In 1950s Ontario, the Coyles of Dickinson's Landing own a narrow clapboard house beside the Long Sault Rapids, and Ontario Hydro is about to drown the whole village for the St. Lawrence Seaway. Before he died, Desmond Coyle put the deed in three names (his widow Nora, his son Hugh and his daughter Greta), so nothing can happen to the house unless all three agree. Hydro offers cash, a new house, or a ride up the hill on a giant moving machine. Thirty years later the house stands in a new town, Nora has had a fall, and her children come home to decide again, only to find that their mother wants something none of them expected. What did each of them really want, and what did it cost the youngest, who never had a vote?