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Elsie Dewhurst is a product of the fifties. She believes a woman’s role is that of wife, mother, and household manager. “I run a tight ship” is her motto. She believes she has control and influence over her four daughters.
Elsie is wrong.
Frequently fearful, constantly vigilant, Elsie navigates her life with integrity and grace. She is particularly sensitive to the criticism of her mother-in-law and the perceived notion of what the neighbours might think.
Set on the Canadian prairies and spanning the years 1981-1996, The Weight of Stones is an account of a well-respected farm family and the coming of age misadventures of the four Dewhurst daughters. Written with empathy and humour, the novel explores such themes as family, love, loyalty, marriage, and forgiveness.
After seven years of leading the successful and prestigious River Valley Invitational Dance Competition, Kathleen Price has been replaced as chairperson. She is enraged. Who made that decision? And why? Most importantly, how can that person be punished?
The unbeatable Ashley Phillips refuses to dance solos. Her mother is antagonistic, and Lily Price, a former foe, has become Ashley’s best friend. Between dance and home, there is Jed The Hood from the wrong side of the tracks.
Sophia Stonolopoulous, director and principal teacher of the Edison School of Dance, has waited for years to be invited. Can she and her dancers rise to the challenge? Will her reunion with past sweetheart, Mayor James Price, be awkward?
River Valley Invitational is a collection of short stories whose protagonists are touched, in one way or another, by all five members of the Price family during a dance competition
in a small prairie city.
Francine Oblansky has reinvented herself so many times she is not sure, even now, who she really is.
Forty-one years after running away from a bad marriage, a woman returns to the town of her childhood. She has changed her identity and no one knows. (To be released, spring of 2022)
