The Fire Line

The acclaimed author of The True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater has created another mythological tale in which lives run headlong off the rails into tangled thickets of love, deception and narrow escape. The tale of Reed Kitchen, lifelong railway worker. full-time language lover and part-time visionary, The Fire Line is a dazzling, dramatic novel, a mesmerizing journey through an eccentric universe.

"Trevor Ferguson has made magic in this marvellous novel". -- The Edmonton Journal

"(Ferguson) is extraordinarily gifted at capturing the experience of a moment, evoking through small ordinary gestures a man's entire emotional history". -- Joan Thomas, The Globe and Mail

"... a 'splendiferous' achievement. (The Fire Line) is a glorious chunk of sustained poetic language that deserves to be short-listed for several awards ..". -- The Toronto Star

"The ending... is both joyous and surprising". -- The Ottawa Citizen