Here is a collection of interconnected short stories that trails the inhabitants of a colonial mansion on Circular Road in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, over a span of 100 years. Aristocrats, hippies, housemaids, an all-girl rock band, a politician, a theologian, a biologist, a ballerina, a crow—over the decades, the house has a way of bending time for its varied occupiers, making readers question how our histories shape us and whether we can ever truly escape, or make peace with, the ghosts of the past.

Heidi Wicks has written for Riddle Fence, Newfoundland Quarterly and The Globe and Mail. Her debut novel, Melt (2020), was featured in the Globe and Mail’s Hot Summer Reads list and received a silver medal IPPY (Independent Publisher) award. She received the 2019 Cox and Palmer Creative Writing Award. She is featured in short fiction collection Hard Ticket and the creative nonfiction collection, Best Kind. She lives in her beloved hometown of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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