 [ Large Cover ] [ Add to Cart ] | Blame it on the Spruce Budworm Susan Haley 1998 / Fiction / $17.95 9781894031066 / Trade paper / 240 pp Diana Cummings is from Toronto, so when she needed a quiet, slow-paced place to finish her movie script and consider her failing marriage, Nova Scotia’s Rossignol Valley seemed the perfect retreat. She couldn’t have been more wrong! After answering an advertisement in the local newspaper, Diana becomes the “Extraordinary Secretary” for the Prince County Woodlot Owners Association—a rag-tag gang of woodsmen and farmers embroiled in a losing battle over the government’s forestry policies. Review: “The plot alternates between the forestry theme and Diana’s relationships with the valley’s locals as she struggles to end her marriage. The result is a hilarious romp through the woodlands and rural communities of the valley. Haley’s gift for characterization is immediately apparent in Blame it on the Spruce Budworm. She creates real characters, people I wanted to learn more about.” Trudy Kelly Forsythe, The New Brunswick Reader | Other Books by this Author |  | Petitot: A Novel Susan Haley 2013 / Ficton / $31.95 CAN 9781554471263 / Trade paper / 368 pp |  | The Complaints Department Susan Haley 2005 / Fiction / $27.95 CAN 9781894031981 / Trade paper / 336 pp |  | The Murder of Medicine Bear Susan Haley 2003 / Fiction / $49.95 CAN 9781894031776 / Fine / 464 pp |  | The Murder of Medicine Bear Susan Haley 2003 / Fiction / $27.95 CAN 9781894031769 / Trade paper / 464 pp |  | Maggie’s Family Susan Haley 2002 / Fiction / $49.95 CAN 9781894031592 / Fine / 288 pp |  | Maggie’s Family Susan Haley 2002 / Fiction / $21.95 CAN 9781894031585 / Trade paper / 288 pp |  | The Complaints Department Susan Haley 2002 / Fiction / $49.95 CAN 9781894031257 / Fine / 304 pp |  | The Complaints Department Susan Haley 2002 / Fiction / $18.95 CAN 9781894031264 / Trade paper / 304 pp |
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