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Burden of Desire
by Robert MacNeil
- LITERATURE
- 1998
- PAPER
- 482 PAGES
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Set in Halifax, Nova Scotia during WWI, this story of love and war by novelist and newsman McNeil opens with the explosion of a docked ship loaded with munitions that destroys the north end of Halifax on December 6, 1917. In the ensuing confusion, an intriguing diary is found by a clergyman, producing most interesting results. It's an intricate, suspenseful book.
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