Gill was also a weekly arts correspondent for CBC News Morning. In the US, she hosted Discoveries This Week on Discovery Science Channel. In nearly two decades as a television broadcaster, Gill has been host of several programs including CBC TV’s The Gill Deacon Show and the Gemini award-winning Daily Planet with Jay Ingram on Discovery Channel. It has been translated into several languages and sold around the world.

David Suzuki and a “genius of a book” by Dr. There’s Lead In Your Lipstick: Toxins in Everyday Bodycare and How to Avoid Them was called “essential reading” by Dr. Gill is the author of two national bestsellers.

This wonderfully entertaining, witty and deeply felt novel brims with forgiveness as its flawed people stumble towards the future.Īward-winning broadcaster and bestselling author Gillian Deacon is host of Here and Now on CBC Radio One, Toronto’s drive show for all the arts, music and news of the day in Canada’s largest market. Their stories bring the prairie desert and the town of Juliet to vivid and enduring life. Situated on the edge of the Little Snake sand hills, Juliet and its inhabitants are caught in limbo between a century - old promise of prosperity and whatever lies ahead.īut the heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people: the foundling who now owns the farm his adoptive family left him the pregnant teenager and her mother, planning a fairytale wedding a shy couple, well beyond middle age, struggling with the recognition of their feelings for one another a camel named Antoinette and the ubiquitous wind and sand that forever shift the landscape. This wonderfully entertaining, witty and deeply felt novel brims with forgiveness as its flawed people stumble towards the future.Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink-of-an-eye kind of town - the welcome sign announces a population of 1,011 people - and it’s easy to imagine that nothing happens on its hot and dusty streets. Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink-of-an-eye kind of town - the welcome sign announces a population of 1,011 people - and it’s easy to imagine that nothing happens on its hot and dusty streets.

Cool Water by Dianne Warren