Category: Literary Fiction Publisher: The Dundurn Group
Pages: 382
Copyright: September l, 2008
ISBN-13: 9781550028430
Set in the beautiful Niagara Escarpment area of Ontario, Granite is the story of an elderly woman who enlists the aid of a few local people to save her farm from falling into the hands of developer who's main interests are gravel pits and quarry operations.
GRANITE
A Novel
The beautiful Hills of Mulmur in Dufferin County,
Southern Ontario interspersed with scenes in Fergus,
Hornings Mills, Creemore, Midland, Collingwood
and Elmvale, provide the setting for Pat Mestern’s
sixth work of fiction, tentatively titled
In June 1962, Lish MacPherson, leaves Toronto
with several boxes of pirated files and a jar of earth
which label contains place-names that seemed important
to her father. Lish’s quest for information about her parents
leads to Seven Springs and Thalia Logan Russo’s Hunter’s
Mark where she feels compelled to assist the eccentric
elderly woman to save her ancestral lands on the Niagara
Escarpment from development.
Lish is quickly introduced to the rural characters who inhabit
the Springs and Valley - Charlie Barnes, Noah Curlew, store
& café owner Georgie, Jeff the mechanic and Len his father,
the Delaney brothers, Bud, Glenn and Reginald Russo. However
tenuous his hold on Hunter’s Mark, land developer, Reginald is
determined to get his hands on Thalia’s property. The plot
involves murder - both ancient and possibly more recent,
deception, deceit, blackmail, love of land, love of life and the
tenacity of people to fight for what they believe in.
Author’s note: In “Granite” I have captured the essence
and spirit of rural Ontario through the characters that
inhabited its farms, villages and towns during the
mid-twentieth century.
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