Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Winner
Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist
Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers' Trust
Fiction Prize winner Ridgerunner is now available as a paperback.
November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty
years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned.
Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the
solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is
also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money
to secure his son's future.
Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton has been left in the care of Sister
Beatrice, a formidable nun who keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her
grand old house. Though he knows his father is coming for him, the boy
longs to return to his family's cabin, deep in the woods. When Jack
finally breaks free, he takes with him something the nun is determined
to get back -- at any cost.
Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly
changing landscape in the West, Gil Adamson's follow-up to her
award-winning debut, The Outlander, is a vivid historical novel that
draws from the epic tradition and a literary Western brimming with a
cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss, and
steeped in the wild of the natural world.**
**
