Kathy-Diane Leveille

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Web site:http://kathy-dianeleveille.com e-mail:shadowsfall@kathy-dianeleveille.com

“It's often said, but not usually with such eloquence, that the only one you can't outrun is you. In LET THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU Kathy-Diane Leveille writes with passion and assurance of a woman who risks sacrificing far too much to try to erase the things she knows are true."

-Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean

"A murder, a past still preying upon the souls of those involved, is always an intrusive guest. Let the Shadows Fall Behind You tells that chronicle with poignancy, wistful descriptions of small town life and punchy characterizations that expose hard truths. Sadly rich and beautiful writing."

-Don Graves CANADIAN MYSTERIES The Hamilton Spectator

“It's the quality of the writing that makes the read worthwhile...A very promising debut."

-www.reviewingtheevidence.com

"A taut psychological thriller with more than enough mystery and rich characterization to keep us mesmerized...." -Reader's Respite

"LET THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU is a haunting story of disappearance and loss and, ultimately, of redemption. Weaving together a world of family loyalties and family lies, of broken bonds and of those that endure, it combines the nuance of poetry with all the suspense of a thriller." Nino Ricci Author of The Origin of Species

This book is kind of a "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" for grownups. Four friends who bond together in childhood, each coming from a troubled past, they create a group for themselves--only does one of the women go above and beyond to take care of the others--even murder? ...this book kept me coming back for more. -Night Owl Romance

LET THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU may by Kathy-Diane Leveille's first novel, but if this book is any indication of her gifts both as a weaver of fascinating stories and a poet of natural expression then it will most assuredly not be her last! ....a fine debut. -Grady Harp, Top 10 Amazon Reviewer

Leveille is brilliant when it comes to building suspense. She drops little bombs, then waits several pages to spell it all out, which had me burning through the pages like crazy to find out what happens. -Diary of an Eccentric

Leveille has written a compelling debut novel...How each character responds to what has happened in the past, and how that shapes their life as an adult is part of the draw of this intense character study. ... the story moves at a rapid pace and does not disappoint. -Bella On-Line: The Voice of Women

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT "ROADS UNRAVELLING:"

"In the eight stories of her debut collection, New Brunswick writer Kathy-Diane Leveille observes the ties and binds of working class lives in lucidly evoked rural settings....her settings and especially her characters--their hopes and fears, verbal and behavioral tics, even their smells--are keenly observed and full of sensual presence."

-Jim Bartley, The Globe and Mail

"All of us can see ourselves in these characters. These are stories that speak to the complicated bonds we have with siblings and parents, who they were and who they are now, and how we learn the truth of what we took for granted before."

-The Fredericton Gleanor

"Dive into these stories, let their current take you. New Brunswick's Kennebecasis is to Kathy-Diane Leveille what the Miramichi is to David Adams Richards--a harsh and lovely riverscape of the soul. Leveille's writing sings of heartbreak and redemption, and the wicked, dancing moments in between. A wise and stirring debut."

-Carol Bruneau

"Kathy-Diane Leveille's first short story collection uses rural New Brunswick to explore characters who, in the midst of emotional change, find childhood memory tugging at their sleeves."

-Atlantic Books Today

"Roads Unravelling sends the reader down an honest dirt-road trek to some very worthwhile destinations off the beaten path. Kathy-Diane Leveille portrays her travelling companions with clarity and insight. Her fiction is absorbing; her command of dialogue and story development is assured. Roads Unravelling is a great piece of Canadian literature."

-Lesley Choyce

"From Quispamsis and down the Kennebecasis River, Kathy-Diane Leveille's collection of short stories, Roads Unravelling, is a winding highway of quiet, still surfaces and yawning depths. Patrolling the flow are gape-jawed monsters and small glimmering pearls of real beauty...Leveille has the ability to write convincingly with the precise delicate strokes that reveal nuance and shadings of character that are very satisfying."

-The New Brunswick Reader

"Leveille shows how fine a line divides those things we can't control in our lives and those we can, and how we can decide to accept the differences."

-Thunder Bay Chronical Journal

"Warning: Don’t start reading Leveille’s book at breakfast if you plan on making it to work on time. It’s that good!"

-Voyage North, CBC Radio Thunder Bay, Ontario

For details on Kathy-Diane Leveille's new novel Let The Shadows Fall Behind You from Kunati Books visit http://kathy-dianeleveille.com.

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