Deloume Road

This debut novel from one of Knopf Canada’s New Faces of Fiction for 2010 tells the story of a small rural community on Vancouver Island against the backdrop of the first Gulf War. Hooton paints portraits of both the newly arrived and long-established members of this peaceful community – but behind them all looms the shadow of Gerard Deloume, whose suicide in 1899 triggered a sequence of events that erupts a century later with violent and tragic consequences.