Dreaming Sally

A True Story of First Love, Sudden Death and Long Shadows

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Prize-winning author James FitzGerald explores how the death of an eighteen-year-old girl in the summer of 1968 forever changed his life and the life of the other man who loved her. Dreaming Sally is a deeply moving exploration of the weight of a life cut short.

Sally will die in Europe this summer.
George Orr dreamed that his girlfriend, Sally Wodehouse, would die on the trip she wanted to take, and he begged her not to go. But Sally did not take him seriously--how could she? She left for Europe in July 1968 with twenty-five other private-school kids, on "The Odyssey," a Sixties version of the Grand Tour. In August 1968, only hours after becoming engaged to George via telegram, she…

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August 28, 2018

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JAMES FITZGERALD is a Toronto-born journalist and author whose first book, Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College, was a controversial inside look at the attitudes and mores of English Canada's ruling class families through the lens of oral history. Revelations of the sexual abuse of boys at the school, first published in the book in 1994, sparked the conviction of three former teachers and a successful, multi-million dollar class action lawsuit against UCC.

His second book, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son’s Quest to Redeem the Past, was a multi-layered exploration of madness and high achievement within his prominent Toronto medical family. The article that sparked the publication of What Disturbs Our Blood won a National…