Claudia Gahlinger, Lynn Coady, Joan Clark, Beatrice MacNeil, Susan Zettell, Sherry D. Ramsey, Jean McNeil, Kim Williamson, Tessie Gillis, Ann-Marie MacDonald, D. C. Troicuk, Tricia Fish, Erin McNamara, Teresa O'Brien, Ellen Frith and Carol Bruneau. Starting with Tessie Gillis, women have been writing the non-traditional story of Cape Breton Island; the deeper, sometimes darker, side. They offer here a rich, rare view of being young, of being old,...