Books written by Donna Morrissey

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What Beautiful Mistake Did You Make Today?

Those poor, beautiful mistakes just want to be loved for guiding you." This amusing story takes place in a fairy house with illustrations that include scampering woodland creatures and an abundance of love and magical fairy dust.
Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist

ALSO BY DONNA MORRISSEY Kit's Law Downhill Chance Sylvanus Now What They Wanted Cross Katie Kross The Deception of Livvy Higgs The Fortunate Brother PLUCK A A Memoir of a Newfoundland Childhood and the.
The Deception of Livvy Higgs

The story opens in Halifax in 2009, travels back to the French Shore of Newfoundland during the mid-thirties and the heyday of the Maritime shipping industry, makes its way to wartorn Halifax during the battle of the Atlantic in World War ...
Downhill Chance

Set in a pair of isolated fishing communities in Newfoundland during and after the Second World War, this is the story of two families joined by friendship but torn apart by fear and sorrows.
What They Wanted

In What They Wanted, the second part of the Sylvanus Now Trilogy, award-winning author Donna Morrissey explores both new and familiar terrain: a divided house on the shores of Newfoundland...
Kit's Law: A Novel

Louis Post-Dispatch In this powerful novel from one of the most gifted storytellers to emerge from Canada since Carol Shields, we find “all the old-fashioned virtues: a vivid sense of place, an intricate and suspenseful plot, and a feisty ...
Sylvanus Now

Sylvanus Now, a young and charming fisherman, wants to marry the beautiful Adelaide, but she instead dreams of escaping the stultifying fishing community in which they live.
Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS’ EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWARD A deeply personal account of love's restorative ability as it leads renowned novelist Donna Morrissey through mental illness, family death ...
Kit's Law

Meanwhile, her grandmother Lizzy staunchly guards them both from the disapproving glances that pious townsfolk cast their way.
Kit's Law; A Novel

Great middle greats fiction.
Sylvanus Now: A Novel

Through this story of love, loss, and transformation in a dissolving community, Donna Morrissey plumbs the depths of authentic relationships and breathes potent life into the ravaged Newfoundland landscape.
What Beautiful Mistake Did You Make Today?

Those poor, beautiful mistakes just want to be loved for guiding you." This amusing story takes place in a fairy house with illustrations that include scampering woodland creatures and an abundance of love and magical fairy dust.
Downhill Chance: A Novel

Morrissey blends melodrama, gritty realism and a flair for the comic in this unique novel. At its core is the unravelling of secrets--and the redemption that truth ultimately brings to the people who inhabit these pages so memorably.
The Fortunate Brother

A rich and compelling novel about murder in a claustrophobic Newfoundland community from bestselling and award-winning novelist Donna Morrissey.
The Deception of Livvy Higgs

The story opens in Halifax in 2009, travels back to the French Shore of Newfoundland during the mid-thirties and the heyday of the Maritime shipping industry, makes its way to wartorn Halifax during the battle of the Atlantic in World War ...
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Sylvanus Now: A Novel

Sylvanus Now is a man of great charm and strength, most at home when fishing the Newfoundland banks.
Sylvanus Now

His youthful desires are simple: He wants a suit to lure a girl—the fine-boned beauty Adelaide. Adelaide, however, has other dreams. Set against the love story of Addie and Sylvanus is the sea on the cusp of cataclysmic change.
The Fortunate Brother

As the murder mystery unfolds, other deeper secrets are revealed. Wise in the ways of the heart, The Fortunate Brother is a moving family drama from beloved storyteller Donna Morrissey.