When Luke Conrad’s aging mother breaks her hip he must return to the Nova Scotian fishing village of Tyler’s Cape for one summer to take care of her. There, as he starts to remember the childhood he has worked so hard to forget, Luke unearths a secret from his mother’s past — a secret that could be the key to understanding all that has happened to his family.

Taking the reader on a journey through childhood and memory, Tyler’s Cape is a story about the relationship between brothers, the difficult yet enduring nature of family, and the rediscovery of a child’s lost world of grace and glory.

Darren Greer grew up in several towns in Nova Scotia, including Greenfield and Liverpool. He studied literature at the University of King¹s College, Halifax, as well as Carleton University, Ottawa. His first novel, Tyler's Cape, was published in March 2001 to critical acclaim and was on the bestseller list of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald. Still Life With June was nominated for the Pearson Readers' Choice Award at The Word On The Street, Toronto, in 2003 and is the Winner of the 2004 ReLit Award. His 2014 novel Just Beneath My Skin is the winner of the 2015 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the official selection for One Book Nova Scotia 2015.

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“This is a novel suffused with life and light, a portrait of proud people living at the end of the Maritime world … A sparsely haunting take on the redemption of a man named Luke.”

The Sun Times

“Greer’s willingness to create a ghastly and credible Mom from hell, with no punches pulled, is the best thing about this book. Closely following that is his balancing, redeeming portrait of the love that three brothers give each other in the face of daunting odds.”

Xtra Magazine