When Tom Vincent's father dies on a foundry floor, the owner offers fourteen-year-old Tom the stewardship of a store on isolated Reach Run Island. Thus begins the odyssey of Tom Vincent - storekeeper, book lover, telegrapher, fisherman, farmer, healer, union organizer, politician and visionary. A Settlement of a Memory is a story of greed, oppression, love, human frailty and, as Stan Dragland observed, it is "...[a] wonderful tale of the inexorable drive to freedom in the teeth of vested interest...." Constructed with passionate attention to detail, A Settlement of a Memory both imagines the past and explores the power and limitations of vision to shape the future.

Gordon Rodgers (1952) was born in Gander, NL. He completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He is currently a Registered Psychologist, practising on a part-time basis. His novel, A Settlement of Memory (1999), was shortlisted for the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Bennington Gate Award.

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