Carol Bruneau writes stories to get lost in. Her latest novel, Glass Voices, is simply the best thing she's done yet, and by far the most ambitious. It's a page-turner that's both shattering and redemptive. It's also a confection of words, written (like all Bruneau's books) so magically that when she describes something it's completely new and at the same time so exact that you wonder how it is she's been first to say it. This writer is pitch perfect. And the stories she tells! In Glass Voices we have a sort of stations-of-the-cross ordeal where a simple woman gutted by the greatest of all losses flounders through confusion, despair, defiance, fatigue, and hope. (For all that, Bruneau even finds room for a few laughs.) The tale is homespun and no less stirring for that. It puts Bruneau in the class of writers like McEwan and Coetzee: in telling us the sentinel truths of our time, they're writers who also "act locally but think globally." Bruneau's world in this book, like most of her books, is reduced to Nova Scotia and especially Cape Breton, but her real canvas is nothing less than the cosmos in all its heft and silence, bitter and sweet. Don't miss it.

Beautifully written and engaging, this eagerly awaited novel does not disappoint!! Bruneau's latest novel richly presents the historical details of The Halifax Explosion. Along with a cast of chararacters, this book reflects a true Maritime flavor and persepective. Lucy Caines reminds us that life is what one makes of it. As she overcomes the day to day obstacles that she faces. Lucy shows the nuances of human connections. This a book to savour!!

If a large part of why you read is to seek the answers to the big questions in life , this is the book for you. Glass Voices is not about plot, or character development , or writing style, although it has all three of these in spades, Glass Voices is about wisdom and love and redemption and transcendence. In coming to know Lucy Caines you experience the heroism required of a regular person who is living a fully conscious life of intention. Regardless of what this world throws in her path Lucy gets on with the business of keepen-on. With each step where others would grow bitter, Lucy grows more loving, I found that her courage somehow inhabited me, and if reading a book can make you a better person, I believe this one will do it. Highly recommended!

Glass Voices is a richly imagined self contained world. We meet human beings in the midst of life--- of heart break in the aftermath of tragedy, of getting along in the drudgery of a work a day world. Bruneau shows us people who are sometimes good and sometimes not so good to themselves and each other. TRUTH. Spirit., Soul. It's all here. I started out fascinated by, but not "liking" Lucy very much and ended up loving her. There are books you can flip through at breakneck pace and they can be well written. Fine. This is not a flip through drive by reading book. For readers who want to experience the richness of reading--- this is that book. Read a little. Let it sink in. Go back. The end result will be that Lucy and her Harry and tribe will inhabit a permanent place in your mind and heart. Brilliant writing. Brilliant.