Mystical, seductive, and brimming with music and magic, Dagmar''s Daughter follows three generations of passionate women. Norea emerges from the destitute Irish village of her childhood and stows herself on a ship bound for a remote island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Her daughter, Dagmar, is born with an uncanny ability to control the weather, and Dagmar''s daughter Nyssa is as musically brilliant as her father and as struck with wanderlust.

Kim Echlin was born in Burlington , Ontario . After completing a doctoral thesis on Ojibway story-telling, she travelled in search of stories through the Marshall Islands , China , France , and Zimbabwe . On her return to Canada she became an arts documentary producer with CBC's The Journal, and a writer for various publications. Her first novel, Elephant Winter, won the TORGI Talking Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the 1997 Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her latest novel is The Disappeared. She currently lives in Toronto with her husband and children.