To Scatter Stones (corrigan Women)

Tess Corrigan returns to her Newfoundland birthplace, an out-port called the Cove, and agrees to stand as the Liberal candidate in the forthcoming provincial election. Newly divorced, Tess is the last of the Corrigan women, the daughter and granddaughter of seduced and abandoned women; asking her strongly Tory friends and neighbours to vote for her means reliving her child-hood as well as courting political enmity. Tess's past also haunts her in the form of Dennis Walsh, the love of her youth. Her heartbreak when he entered the seminary returns when she realizes that he is still in love with her. To Scatter Stones is the second volume in M.T. Dohaney's Cor-rigan Women trilogy. Among her other works are the novel A Marriage of Masks, which won the Thomas Raddall Award for Atlantic Fiction, and When Things Gets Back to Normal, a moving memoir about her husband's sudden death. The feature film Come Back Paddy Riley, for which she co-wrote the script, is currently in development.