Bestselling author of FINDING FLORA Elinor Florence’s TOUCHING GRASS, a work of historical fiction set in Canada’s southern prairies in the late 1800s, about a woman’s search for her missing sister, who has left to do missionary work with the Indigenous, and her discovery of a trail of murdered women from Montreal to Maple Creek, along with reissues of backlist titles BIRD’S EYE VIEW and WILDWOOD, to Adrienne Kerr at Simon & Schuster Canada, for publication in 2027, by Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency (Canada).
Elinor Florence grew up on a Saskatchewan farm and earned degrees in English and journalism. She worked for newspapers in all four Western provinces, spent eight years writing for Reader’s Digest Canada, and even published her own award-winning community newspaper. Her first novel, Bird’s Eye View, was a national bestseller, while the second, Wildwood, was named one of Kobo’s Hundred Most Popular Canadian Books of All Time. Finding Flora, an instant #1 national bestseller and a Heather’s Pick, was inspired by her own Scottish homesteading and Indigenous ancestors. She is a member of the Métis Nation of British Columbia and makes her home in the mountain resort of Invermere.
Elinor is represented by Samantha Haywood.
Congratulations, Elinor!