A taut, propulsive family drama steeped in mystery, menace and a long-buried secret from award-winning author Kevin Hardcastle.
It has been years since Mara O'Hare has come home to North Simcoe County. But she is forced to return after her father's death. Arthur O'Hare-the meanest, most vicious man in the townships-laid low, isolated, angry and sullen before he took his own life.
Mara is reunited with her two sisters, Beth and Emma. Soon, the three women are fighting to retain ownership of their home, a farm they have inherited from their father. But Arthur O'Hare's legacy is not just land. He has also left his daughters an unanticipated inheritance of violence and terror, born out of a long-buried family secret.
Award-winning author Kevin Hardcastle has written a tough, compelling and thrilling novel that lays bare the best and worst of human nature and examines the muddy places in between. County Road Six is an unforgettable family saga about gender and class, rural communities, fathers and daughters, and what we leave behind. KEVIN HARDCASTLE is the award-winning author of the debut story collection Debris, which won the Trillium Book Award and the ReLit Award for Short Fiction and was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. His critically acclaimed debut novel, In the Cage, has been published in France and Germany, and film rights have been optioned. His work has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and he was a finalist for the 24th annual Journey Prize. His short story, "Old Man Marchuk," was included in the 26th annual The Journey Prize Stories and recently re-published in Journey, a compendium of the best short fiction published throughout the thirty-five years of the anthology. He grew up in Simcoe County, Ontario, and now lives in Toronto.
