Cathy Marie Buchanan
Cathy Marie Buchanan
Cathy Marie Buchanan’s The Painted Girls became a #1 National Bestseller in Canada, a New York Times Bestseller, and has garnered rave reviews and been showered with special attention—everything from selection as a People Magazine pick to inclusion in Entertainment Weekly’s Must List to being named a best book of 2013 by NPR, Good Housekeeping and Goodreads. Her debut novel, The Day the Falls Stood Still, became a New York Times Bestseller and a Barnes & Noble Recommends selection. Her Daughter of Black Lake is forthcoming in October 2020. She holds a BSc (Honours Biochemistry) and an MBA from Western University. Born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario, she now resides in Toronto.
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The Day the Falls Stood Still pulls us into the maelstrom of Niagara Falls at the time when rivermen drew daredevils from the brink, the promise of hydroelectric power wooed a nation and only a few dared question our relationship with the mighty river. Powerful and eloquent, a love story, a tribute to the river, and a recognition that no choice is ever made without consequences, The Day the Falls Stood Still is a novel to savour, as powerful as the Falls themselves.
“A wonderful love story…Buchanan weaves Niagara Falls’ history and her storytelling together masterfully.” —Elle
“Few first novels exhibit the mastery, maturity and majesty of Buchanan’s riveting fictional debut, a heart-wrenching, soul-racking, spell-binding tale interwoven with guts, anguish and glory guaranteed to remain in readers’ minds.”—The Globe and Mail
“The Day the Falls Stood Still stands on its own elegant prose and the vibrant voice of its narrator.”—USA Today
“The Day the Falls Stood Still is an extraordinarily assured first novel….It is a southern Ontario Gothic of the highest order.”—National Post
The Painted Girls is a heart-rending novel set in belle époque Paris and inspired by the real-life model for Degas’s Little Dancer Aged 14 and a notorious criminal trial of the era. After their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where she will be trained to enter the famous Ballet and meet Edgar Degas. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work—and the love of a dangerous young man—as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola’s Naturalist masterpiece L’Assommoir.
“Deeply moving and inventive.” — People
“Degas’s Little Dancer Aged Fourteen comes to life in this richly imagined novel.” — Entertainment Weekly
“Hard to put down, destined to be hotly debated book-club fodder across the country.” — The Globe and Mail
“You’ll be swept up in this emotional tale of strength and survival.” — Chatelaine