Patricia Calder

A woman with short grey hair, wearing a black turtleneck and small gold hoop earrings. She is looking off to the side and smiling slightly.

When Patricia Calder opened her grandmother's WWII scrapbook, she uncovered a gripping tale of the uncle she never knew, and understood  why her parents never talked about "the war." As a writer, Calder is fascinated by the ghosts in her family's closet. She likes to dig into historical records and brings the sensibilities of a photographer to her fiction. Her first novel is Roadblock.

Book(s)

Books

I Flew into Trouble

Photo of a de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito flying at night over farm fields. Super imposed in the bottom right corner is a photo of a man wearing a Second World War-era leather flying helmet.

"Jack's story has all of life displayed in one ordinary family's experience of war. Based on actual letters and news articles penned by Jack Calder, his niece Patricia has crafted an epistolary novel that takes the reader into the thick of WWII.