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Kathy-Diane Leveille

Her new novel "Standing in the Whale's Jaw" is published by Tightrope Books

Author, Kathy-Diane Leveille, is a former broadcast journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Her settings and especially her characters are keenly observed and full of sensual presence. - The Globe and Mail

Leveille writes of heartbreak and redemption and all the dizzy, dancing moments in-between. -Carole Bruneau author of Purple for Sky

Picturing ordinary people in extraordinary situations, and recording their impressions with an intense clarity we associate more with black and white photos, Leveille is blessed with a flash of insight that lets the readers see far beyond the surface.-Chronical Journal


“Brannagh Maloney had lived with disappearances all her life. They were as familiar to her as the changing of the Fundy tides. People who disappeared left cast-off shadows of themselves, murky tremblings that slunk out of corners on drizzly autumn afternoons. They lurked offstage, silent or sighing or reaching out to run a finger across her arm. They were the curtains fluttering in the window on a breezeless morning, the musty scent that arose when opening an abandoned cellar door. LET THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU (Kunati Books)”
Kathy-Diane Leveille
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