The riveting Alford Saga continues with James Alford, the Deserter, battling old age and ferocious winters, but even more crippling, the departure of his son and only heir, Young Jim, who sets out on snowshoes for Montreal, seven hundred miles away. He returns to the Old Homestead and its community of pioneers. His ageing father recruits him to rally recalcitrant neighbours to found a school and a church.
PAUL ALMOND, OC, was one of Canada's preeminent film and television directors, and has directed and produced over 130 television dramas for the CBC, BBC, ABC and Granada Television (SevenUp). He has now turned his talents to writing a series of novels based on his family's own pioneering adventures in Canada: The Alford Saga, four of which have been published, (The Deserter, The Survivor, The Pioneer, and The Pilgrim) and four more to come over the next three years. Paul Almond lives on the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec and Malibu, California. www.paulalmond.com
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