• Reading age: 15 to 18

Call Waiting is a modern love story of inner conflict. This, sometimes oddly funny story, is woven around the corporate landscape of the communication media. A TV reporter, a former cop, now private detective, weave through the story testing the boundaries of their relationship. Despite themselves, characters find out who they really are.

Merle Amodeo's profile page

Merle Amodeo remembers writing creatively as soon as she could form letters into words. She was born in Toronto in 1939.

She moved to Oshawa in 1978 with her husband and two children. Merle taught at elementary schools in Oakville and Toronto and at Durham College for more than thirty years including classes in creative writing.

She has published two poetry chapbooks Let Me In and Because of You. Merle is presently working on her second novel and continuing to write poetry as “soul food”.

Call Waiting is a smart and fast-paced story about our times and the ways in which we relate in these times. It is a colourful and imaginative narrative, told with wit and charm. A bright new talent has arrived on the literary landscape.

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Dean of School of Creative and Performing Arts, Humber College
Winner of Leacock award for humour.