1. She was born in Golden, British Columbia in 1958.
2. She grew up in various places including Halifax and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and Toronto, Ontario.
3. She chose acting as her first career.
4. She later became a writer and her first novel, Open Arms, was published in 2001.
5. Her second novel, Good to a Fault, was published in 2008; it was a finalist for the 2008 Giller Prize and won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean.
Have you read either of her books?
