Kingfisher Days
Based on her Childhood Correspondence with R.C. Moir
A magical tale of friendship and wonder—the perfect gift for the imaginative child in all of us.
One summer, in a hedge near her family’s cottage in Kenora, five-year-old Susan Coyne discovered an overgrown stone fireplace. Her father said it was the home of Uncle Joe Spondoolak, an elf who’d moved in after the cottage had burned down long ago. Susan, a fanciful child, decided to become keeper of the hearth, tidying it up and leaving little gifts for the elves: handfuls of wild strawberries, daisy chains, a tiny birchbark canoe. Overnight the gifts would disappear. One morning, there was a tiny piece of carefully folded pink paper wedged in between the mossy…
$19.95
November 26, 2002
Susan is an award-winning actor and writer, best known for her work as a co-creator and star of the acclaimed TV series, Slings and Arrows. As an actor, she has appeared on stages across Canada including several seasons at the Stratford Festival. As a writer, she has adapted major works by Chekhov and Turgenev for the stage, as well as her own childhood memoir, Kingfisher Days. Her first feature film, The Man Who Invented Christmas, was released in 2017. Currently, she is a writer and producer on Amazon’s award-winning series, Mozart in the Jungle. Susan is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, a founding member of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre Company, and a member of the Order of Canada.
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