“These “meditations” are always engaging, easy to read, articulate – but above all, REALLY worth reading!  I find every one of them thought-provoking, interesting, and true.  I’d want to read this even if I never set foot on the Camino!” – Barbara Turner-Vesselago, author of Writing Without A Parachute: The Art of Freefall, Vala Publishers, 2013.

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It’s 1964 in rural Ontario in Kelly Watt’s debut novel, Mad Dog, and 14-year-old Sheryl-Anne MacRae has a transistor playing the Supremes and a swoony crush on Peter Angelo, the guitar-playing hitchhiker working in her Uncle Fergus’s orchard for the summer. She also has the “sight,” the ability to see pictures of things in her head before they happen, or at least that’s how her uncle explains the horrible visions she has been having. The lazy adolescent curiosity of Sheryl’s summer of ‘64–reading Nancy Drew by the lake, aiming her binoculars at the lovely hired hand–is shadowed by a vague haze of cruelty and menace, which thickens the more we learn about Fergus’s apocalyptic ideas: that a new age is coming, and that “the true law is man’s will, what is evil often does good.” keep reading…