Nowhere like This Place: Tales from a Nuclear Childhood Ian Mobsby which won the 2011 Festival

which won the 2011 Festival de Chambéry Prize for best first novel in Spanish

Come Softly

this book stands out as a concise

He is commonly recognized for his instructional letters to the Nuns of the Visitation

and by the age of ten

Nowhere like This Place: Tales from a Nuclear Childhood Ian Mobsby which won the 2011 FestivalMarilyn Carr's family arrived in Deep River, Ontario in 1960 because her dad got a job at a mysterious place called "the plant." The quirky, isolated residence for the employees of Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories was impeccably designed by a guy named John Bland. It's a test tube baby of a town that sprang, fully formed, from the bush north of Algonquin Park, on the shore of the Ottawa River. Everything has already been decided, including the colours