Morrissey, Donna

Downhill Chance

“Irresistible…Masterful…The rich, rocky terrain of Newfoundland has borne a native storyteller with talent to burn in Donna Morrissey.”Sunday Tribune, Dublin Forum Sweden 2004Aoyama Japan 2003Houghton Mifflin US 2001Heyne Germany 2001Hodder&Stoughton UK 2000Penguin Canada 1999 Downhill Chance There is no road to Rocky Head or The Basin, two tiny fishing hamlets hugging the isolated coves of…

Kit’s Law

“A Newfoundland Thomas Hardy…Morrissey’s work is a performance, an almost oral folk epic.”The Globe and Mail “A Wuthering Heights of the craggy coast of Newfoundland, a family epic of full (and fulsome) proportions.”The London Free Press Awards:Thomas H. RandallAtlanticAwardShortlisted/IndependentBookselllers AwardBarnes & Noble USDiscover a Great AuthorWinifred Holtby Prize UKAlex Award/ American Library Association Forum Sweden…

Sylvanus Now

“Morrissey summons energy and passion to invest this clash of the old versus the new with an epic quality  — and succeeds … the writing is poised, charged and tactile, almost biblical in places.”The Sunday Times (London) “…Breathtakingly beautiful…A splendidly unique novel.”Alistair MacLeod “…an arresting tale, recounted in powerful, lyrical prose.”Montreal Gazette “Absorbing human drama,…

What They Wanted

What They Wanted More Reviews:  “Donna Morrissey is a wonderfully gifted writer. The setting of her books is Newfoundland, but their appeal is universal. She unashamedly cares for her characters and sees them as real people with real lives worth caring and reading about. To read one of her books is to wind up laughing…

What They Wanted

“Donna Morrissey is an absolute terrific original.” David Adams Richards “Morrissey stands out for her descriptive powers, her wonderful turns of phrase and the inner complexities of her characters…she writes of the Newfoundland landscape with the lyricism of a poet…Sometimes a reviewer wants to tell readers everything about a book, about all the layers of complexity,…

Praise for The Deception of Livvy Higgs

Donna Morrissey grew up in the Beaches, a small fishing outport in Newfoundland. Her four previous, award-winning novels, drawing on her roots in that rich and rocky terrain, have been bestsellers in Canada and published in several languages, including German, Japanese, Swedish and Italian. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Penguin Canada Fall 2012 Praise for The…

The Deception of Livvy Higgs

Donna Morrissey grew up in the Beaches, a small fishing outport in Newfoundland. Her four previous, award-winning novels, drawing on her roots in that rich and rocky terrain, have been bestsellers in Canada and published in several languages, including German, Japanese, Swedish and Italian. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Penguin Canada Fall 2012 The Deception…

The Fortunate Brother

Donna Morrissey grew up in the Beaches, a small fishing outport in Newfoundland. Her four previous, award-winning novels, drawing on her roots in that rich and rocky terrain, have been bestsellers in Canada and published in several languages, including German, Japanese, Swedish and Italian. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  “Donna Morissey is one of our…