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UNTO THE DAY
Immersive, epic, and emotionally moving, Unto the Day is an intelligent, captivating literary feat.
October 13
Dundurn Press
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PRAISE FOR UNTO THE DAY:
“Furlong gives voice to those most intimately involved with [George] Brown's story ... Each is given a poignant backstory, fully fleshed out with the full range of human emotion and experience — a visceral reminder that the histories of the famous include a variety of no-less-important secondary characters.”– Booklist
“Tracing the entangled fates of doppelganger pair George Bennett, an alcoholic labourer with literary aspirations, and George Brown, newspaper magnate and founding father of Canada, Dayle Furlong sketches a sensitive, finely detailed portrait of an early Canada wracked with the tension of uneasy political union and gaping class, gender, and religious inequities. Unto the Day joins Alias Grace and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams as some of this country's best-researched and most compelling historical fiction.”– Sarah Henstra, author of The Red Word
“If you love historical fiction and perfect prose, be prepared to enter a world filled with rebel suffragists, poet-assassins, and high drama. Set in a wonderfully realized 1880s Toronto, this is the book for everyone who's tried to walk that razor-thin line between absolute loyalty and undeniable treason. Or even just felt the weight of someone else's shadow. A heart-pounding literary page-turner you won't be able to put down.”– Andrew Kaufman, author of Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel
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ABOUT UNTO THE DAY:
In the spring of 1880, wealthy politician and Globe editor George Brown was at the height of his career when he was shot by a disgruntled poet who worked in the newspaper’s boiler room.
Brown left an undeniable legacy as a founder of the modern Liberal Party, fierce abolitionist, industrialist, and preeminent Father of Confederation.
Yet he was not without his flaws: Brown infamously disliked the Irish and arrogantly declared that women should not vote.
In this deeply imagined work of historical fiction,narrated through the perspective of characters most impacted by his formidable presence, readers witness the struggle of a motherless Irish domestic in fear and awe of Brown; his wife, Anne, a suffragist who is caught between devotion and defiance of her husband’s authority; and the world-weary poet who seethes with resentment, harbouring notions of revenge.
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