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Told from the point of view of an Italian Canadian child, "The Wheel Keeper " centres on the grandmother’s forced emigration from Italy as a young unwed mother, and the building of a hydroelectric dam which will flood the British Columbia village in which the story is set.

Robert Pepper-Smith's graceful follow-up to "The Wheel Keeper" follows the friendship between teenagers Rose and Lacey and their search for self-confidence, acceptance, and love in a small village in south-eastern British Columbia. When Rose becomes pregnant, the childless Giacomo family, whose wealth is well-known in the community, offers to adopt the child. As Rose wrestles with the decision to give up her baby, Lacey recounts her efforts to...

Robert Pepper Smith's trilogy of novels chronicling the lives of those with deep roots in the orchard lands of British Columbia comes full circle with this volume, collecting newly revised editions of The Wheel Keeper and House of Spells with Sanctuary. The Wheel Keeper introduced readers to Michael Guzzo, raised in one of the many immigrant families who flocked to the vineyards and orchards of the Kootenays. When the government plans to flood...