“A tour de force. Simonds’s prose is alluring, her historical detective work is flawless . . . what makes The Convict Lover soar off the page, though, is Simonds’s ability to probe into the psyches of real people, and to find there imaginative truth.”

— The Globe and Mail

The Convict Lover
Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 1996.
Distributed by McClelland & Stewart.
ISBN 1-55199-019-9