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Terrie Todd -- Book Launch

Friday Feb 12 2016 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium
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Winnipeg launch of The Silver Suitcase (Waterfall Press).

Two women, separated by three generations but connected by the secrets stored in an old silver suitcase. And one powerful, healing God who pursues them both.

1939. Cornelia Simpson, a 17-year old farm girl on the Canadian prairies, has hated God since her twelfth birthday, the day her mother died. As Canada goes to war, tragedy provides Cornelia still more reason to reject the God her parents loved—until a mysterious visitor appears in her hour of desperation.

2006. Cornelia’s granddaughter, Benita, discovers the heartbreaking secrets hidden in her grandmother’s old suitcase and begins an unexpected journey of healing, reunion, and faith.

Terrie Todd is an award-winning playwright and author from Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. An eight-time contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul, she writes a weekly faith and humour column for The Central Plains Herald Leader. This is her first novel.

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The Silver Suitcase

- Terrie Todd

Trade paperback $17.95
Reader Reward Price: $16.16

A Word Award winner.

It's 1939, and Canada is on the cusp of entering World War II. Seventeen-year-old farm girl Cornelia has been heartbroken since the day her mother died five years ago. As a new tragedy provides Cornelia still more reason to reject her parent's faith, a mysterious visitor appears in her hour of desperation. Alone and carrying a heavy secret, she makes a desperate choice that will haunt her for years to come. Never telling a soul, Cornelia pours out the painful events of the war in her diary.

Many decades later, Cornelia's granddaughter, Benita, is in the midst of her own crisis, experiencing several losses in the same week, including the grandmother she adored. The resulting emotional and financial stress takes its toll on her and her husband, Ken, who is unemployed. On the brink of divorce, she discovers Cornelia's diary. Now the secrets of her grandmother's past will lead Benita on an unexpected journey of healing, reunion, and faith.