Morrin Centre Launch September 2012

The wonderful old Morrin Centre, which mainly serves the 

small English population of Quebec City, welcomed me.

I was introduced by the President Sovita Chandler.

I spoke about The Pilgrim in the beautiful library.

The balcony is crammed with books. 

The splendid and attentive, audience enjoyed it all.

Afterwards, many queued to get their books signed.

I signed a book for Babs, wife to my old BCS buddy,

Hugh Bignell. 

Then I was interviewed by the Quebec Chronicle 

Telegraph.

Paul talks to the CBC about The Pilgrim

 

Set in 1896 along the isolated Lower North Shore of Quebec, 

this page-turning romantic novel follows the adventures -- 

many harrowing -- of a novice clergyman by the name of Jack Alford. 

The character is inspired by Paul Almond's real uncle, Reverend Jack 

Almond. Paul Almond, now 81, summers in Shigawake, in the Gaspé, 

and for the past ten years there, he has been writing a 

not-so-fictional account of his family's 200-year 

long pioneering history in this province. This latest book, called 

The Pilgrim, was launched today in Quebec City.

Link to interview: http://www.cbc.ca/breakaway