by Jack Hodgins

When an unknown woman steps off a beached Peruvian freighter and walks into the Vancouver Island town of Port Annie nothing can ever be quite the same. Stalwart citizens, tired of their milltown routine, grasp at a fresh subject for gossip. Others are suddenly prepared to make momentous decisions. But eccentric old Joseph Bourne is certain that the mysterious woman has come looking for him. First published in 1979, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne won the Governor General's Award for Fiction.