Bishop's Road

Bishop's Road is set in contemporary St. John's and tells the story of a year in the lives of a handful of odd characters, women mostly, shaken out of their pathetic complacency by a teenage delinquent with magic in her eyes. There are bones in the attic, humour, tragedy, joy, a little romance, murder and some madness and the delicious realization that life is best lived out loud. Catherine Hogan Safer was born and raised in Newfoundland: the Codroy Valley, Gander and St. John's. Bishop’s Road was short listed for the Amazon.ca Books in Canada Award in 2005. Her children’s book, What if Your Mom Made Raisin Buns won the Marianna Dempster Memorial Book Award and was short listed for the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. Hope, folly, wisdom...the book's point is its picaresque journey, a tumble of overlapping mini-narratives ... Life lessons surface and bob like corks on Safer's bouyant prose. -The Globe and Mail Canadian author, Women, Relationships.