"An altogether remarkable, frequently funny, genuinely moving, and utterly original book."-Jan Morris

"I''ve just discovered The Danger Tree and am stunned. It is so good. [It''s] about the best prose ever to come out of this country, for my money."-Alice Munro

"[David Macfarlane's] Newfoundland memoir, The Danger Tree, is easily one of the most readable and beautifully written books to emerge from Canada in recent years." -Mordecai Richler, Saturday Night

"The Danger Tree is a masterpiece. David Macfarlane is an architect of the past, building extraordinary memory mansions in which the reader feels eerily at home." -Alberto Manguel

"The Danger Tree is absolutely riveting: an extraordinary mixture of history, memory, fiction, and technique that succeeds at every level. I was touched, I was exhilarated, and I was thrilled to read a book that has risen to the challenge of recording Canada's past, the past in all our hearts." -Michael Ignatieff

"Macfarlane''s debut is an auspicious one for a country that now, more than ever in its history, needs popular authors who can turn the past into stories that illuminate the present." -Maclean''s

"Wry, informative, and deeply moving ... the literary tour de force of the year." -Philip Marchand, The Toronto Star

"Splendid!" -New York Times

Praise for Summer Gone:
"Summer Gone is a homage to our most excruciating and beautiful memories. Within this novel is the marvellous height of summer, perfect and fleeting, a place and time we can never get enough of." --The Globe and Mail

"Summer Gone is a novel about telling stories - one that merges fiction and truth, past and present, memory and action, into one dangerous and beautiful current." --The Calgary Herald

"Summer Gone is a summer vacation in the north woods, with all that implies to you the reader." --Winnipeg Free Press