[R]ecounts the passionate love affair between Farley Mowat, a Canadian naturalist and popular environmental author, and Claire Wheeler, his second wife... A revealing look inside a literary love affair.
-Publishers Weekly
Great love stories involve intense passion and a monumental impediment to its fulfilment. Farley and Claire is one such tumultuous, whirlpool of a love story that makes us long to be lovestruck again, and beloved.
-Susan Musgrave, author of Exculpatory Lilies
Farley and Claire is a gripping and surprisingly suspenseful story of two writers in love that takes us on a ribald, rollicking journey full of books, boats, voyages, friendships, and feuds.
-Stephen Mayer, journalist and author of Salvage
Michael Harris, ace investigative journalist, uses his skills to lay bare secrets of the human heart, and he triumphs. He's got the documents-fiery, frank, lusty letters between emerging icon Farley Mowat and the young Claire Wheeler-as their creative souls merge and clash.
-David Beers, Founding Editor, The Tyee
Michael Harris's beautifully written and richly detailed Farley and Claire: A Love Story is both laugh-out-loud entertaining and heartbreaking. Told with so much colour, grace, and style, this great love story between Canadian author Farley Mowat and Claire Wheeler is a page-turner and a beautiful book.
-Kate Malloy, Editor, The Hill Times
Delving through 54 years of love letters between the irascible Farley Mowat and the lovely Claire Wheeler, Harris traces the arc of a Canadian marriage like no other, yet somehow like every other marriage: a country of dark forests, graceful clearings, and deep waters that sustain our thirst for love. Readers will find this stark romance between two very different soul-friends the right sort of tonic for these hateful times.
-Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Empire of the Beetle and The Energy of Slaves
Farley Mowat was Canada's greatest iconoclastic environmental icon-fearless, uncompromising, and mischievous. Michael Harris reveals another Farley-angst-ridden and focused on Claire, the love of his life, enmeshed in the strictures and values of a time now gone. I wept, laughed, and commiserated as I followed this amazing love story with a happy ending.
-David Suzuki
Farley and Claire is a love story as intimate and enduring as the love it portrays.
-Wayne Grady, author of Pandexicon and The Good Father
I proudly published the remarkable Farley, and knew Claire for many years, but now find that their greatest work-about their love-was hidden and is now revealed here so unforgettably by Michael Harris.
-Douglas Gibson, former President and Publisher of McClelland & Stewart and author of Across Canada by Story