With Downhill Chance, Donna Morrissey has crafted a captivating tale, and in Clair Gale, she has created an unforgettable heroine. Clair is the unsinkable heart of the novel, a story of two families during wartime, the Osmonds and the Gales, and of sisters joined by love yet torn apart by fear and secrets. Set in pre-Confederation Newfoundland and spanning the World War II years, Downhill Chance blends melodrama, gritty realism, and Morrissey's flair for the comic. At its core is the unravelling of secrets - and the redemption that truth ultimately brings to the people who inhabit these pages so memorably.
