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Bad Ideas

Wildly funny and wonderfully moving, Bad Ideas is about just that — a string of bad ideas — and the absurdity of love.

Trudy works nights in a linen factory, avoiding romance and sharing the care of her four-year-old niece with Trudy's mother, Claire. Claire still pines for Trudy's father, a St. Lawrence Seaway construction worker who left her 20 years ago. Claire believes in true love. Trudy does not — that is, until Jules Tremblay, aspiring daredevil, leaps into the Trudy’s life.

Loosely inspired by Ken "the Crazy Canuck" Carter's attempt to jump the St. Lawrence River in a rocket car, and set in a 1970s hollowed-out town in eastern Ontario, Bad Ideas paints an indelible portrait of people on the forgotten fringes of life. Witty and wise, this is a novel that will stay with you a long time.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 257
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781770414617
  • Genres
  • fiction, canada, contemporary, romance, audiobook, humor
  • Release date
  • 2019