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• Commended, Honorable Mention, Wild Card, Great Midwest Book Festival

Susanne Gauthier is an accomplished corporate writer and editor. She grew up in Toronto, but now happily resides in the relative peace and quiet of Saskatoon with her husband and two teenage children. She is known for her frankness and spirit. She believes everyone has a beautiful truth that if understood would be universally praised and cherished. She believes in offering people a safe space to be authentic. In writing, Sue has a passion for connecting the dots between her subjects’ deepest motivations and their highest truths.

Although she has written many articles and small pieces for publication, Sue is new to the book publishing world. Rebuilding a Brick Wall is Sue’s first published work of this kind, but she hopes it won’t be her last.

"Rebuilding A Brick Wall is a must read for anyone who has experienced, directly or indirectly, the effects of brain injury. Which means pretty well everyone, and most of us don’t know nearly enough about the condition: as the compilation of statistics at the end of the book show, every 3 minutes someone in Canada sustains a brain injury. That adds up to one heck of a large number of people. Our friends. Our family members.
With the help of Susanne Gauthier, Evan Wall tells the story of the brain injury he sustained in a car accident, and relates his subsequent physical, mental, and emotional learning and relearning about himself, and through his experiences, readers learn a great deal they need to learn about the internal and external impact of such a debilitating injury.
Gauthier does a remarkable job of handling the prose, structure, and presentation of the material related to Wall’s story. Gauthier’s voice never overrides or intrudes, but rather, because she is a fine writer herself, provides a consistency of tone, and a clarity in the information that might not have otherwise been achieved."

- J. Jill Robinson