Michael Rowe is perhaps my favorite living Canadian author. The fact that his work doesn’t get wider exposure continues to perplex and frustrate me.

Wild Fell is the last of his books I hadn’t read, so I fixed that this October.
This novel could really almost be divided neatly into three different but connected segments. The tragedy of Sean and Brenda in Alvina, the main character’s fraught childhood, and finally the ghost story proper as our protagonist buys a haunted house sight unseen.
Overall it was an entertaining, unique, captivating read. I definitely enjoyed the first segment the most, but overall it told a fascinating story with an ending I didn’t see coming. Rowe writes with beautiful clarity and vividness and his works have a cinematic quality to them, like the story is a movie that you’re living in.

October is still my favorite of his so far but I’m certainly glad I read this and will eagerly read anything else he puts out.