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1915. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era in Niagara Falls. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath has led a sheltered existence as the youngest daughter of the director of the Niagara Power Company. After graduation day at her boarding school, she is impatient to return to her picturesque family home near Niagara Falls. But when she arrives, nothing is as she had left it. Her father has lost his job at the power company, her mother is reduced to taking in sewing from the society ladies she once entertained, and Isabel, her vivacious older sister, is a shadow of her former self. She has shut herself in her bedroom, barely eating-and harboring a secret.The night of her return, Bess meets Tom Cole by chance on a trolley platform. She finds herself inexplicably drawn to him-against her family's strong objections. He is not from their world. Rough-hewn and fearless, he lives off what the river provides, and he has an uncanny ability to predict the whims of the falls. His daring river rescues render him a local hero and cast him as a threat to the power companies that seek to harness the power of the falls for themselves. As their lives become more fully entwined, Bess is forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family and her future.Set against the tumultuous backdrop of Niagara Falls, at a time when daredevils shot the river rapids in barrels and great industrial fortunes were made and lost as quickly as lives disappeared, The Day the Falls Stood Still is an intoxicating novel.
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"A wonderful love story . . . Buchanan weaves Niagra Falls' history and her storytelling together masterfully" (Elle)
"What a world newcomer Cathy Marie Buchanan brings to propulsively glittering and gorgeous life in The Day the Falls Stood Still" (The Globe and Mail)
"More than just a captivating historical novel about the Niagara Falls. It is a highly spiritual tale of family, love, loss, class, early environmentalism and the battle fought to make citizens aware of the natural sacrifices made in the name of progress" (Publishers Weekly)
"The Day the Falls Stood Stillis an extraordinarily assured first novel....It is a southern Ontario Gothic of the highest order" (National Post)
"This first novel abounds in romance and charm" (Quill & Quire)
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From a remarkable new voice in fiction, a powerful debut novel set in Niagara Falls at the time of the First World War.
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- PublisherTantor Media Inc
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1400114810
- ISBN 13 9781400114818
- BindingAudio CD
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