It's a new year! But, as authors, we're always looking back. Try as we might, we're always basing our work going forward on our past experiences. So! With that in mind, we're starting off the new year by asking 11 amazing and diverse authors to wind back the clock and tell us what the first book that made them cry was!

Featuring from Breakwater Books Ltd.:
Kerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger Warning
Dr. Ainsley Hawthorn, PhD, editor of Land of Many Shores

From HarperCollins Canada:
Charlene Carr, author of Hold My Girl

From 47North:
Shannon Fay, author of Innate Magic

From Engen Books Ltd.:
Hannah Jenkins, author of The Birds Come Back in the Spring
Daze Jefferies, contributor to Acceptance: Stories at the Centre of Us

Also featuring:
Lucy McLauren, author of Awakening.
Andrea Dunne, Nicole Smith, and Kassie Lukeman of the Women's Work Festival,
and: Sal, from ComicPop!

Originally broadcast on January 02, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. 

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