Harry Bruce's family has lived in Nova Scotia since the late eighteenth century. The family history is one of incessant wanderings abroad and constant return. Seventeen years ago, Harry went back to discover his heritage, and now lives in the house where his father was born. He finds himself among a tough, quirky and resilient people, in a beautiful but unforgiving land.

Born and raised in Toronto, Harry Bruce has deep family and literary roots in Nova Scotia. Author of over twenty books and countless columns and articles in every major Canadian periodical, he was, successively, managing editor of Saturday Night, editor of The Canadian and columnist for The Star Weekly. He moved to Halifax as founding editor of Atlantic Insight, winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award of the National Magazine Awards Foundation. Respected worldwide as a writer, journalist and educator, in 2011 Harry Bruce received Atlantic Journalism's Lifetime Achievement Award. His book Lifeline earned the first Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He continues to live in Halifax with his wife Penny, to whom he credits much of his success.

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