Lucy Cloud

Lucy Cloud is a multi-generational novel that follows the fortunes and heartaches of a family with secrets and the intense longing to live fully. A tale of a time and a place, where people must be strong and inventive to make a good life. In 1960s Inverness, Cape Breton, the coal mines have closed and farms stand abandoned as families must find other ways to survive. Curly MacLeod, the last of the old-time horse traders, must cultivate a new clientele the back-to-the-landers who are moving in. When hippies Eric and Jenny Petcoff buy the farm next door, his wife, the religious Annabel, worries about their influence on their teenage son Blaise. And Blaise is influenced. Blaise eventually has a daughter, Lucy, who grows up in Ontario but spends summers in Cape Breton with her grandparents. Her roots there are strong, but Lucy's life is full of the strange and the wonderful. With her mystic skill, where will her true calling take her?