"[R]ecounts the passionate love affair between Farley Mowat, a Canadian naturalist and popular environmental author, and Claire Wheeler, his second wife. A revealing look inside a literary love affair." -- Publishers Weekly "Great love stories involve intense passion and a monumental impediment to its fulfilment. Farley and Claire is one such tumultuous, whirlpool of a love story that makes us long to be lovestruck again, and beloved." --Susan Musgrave, author of Exculpatory Lilies " Farley and Claire is a gripping and surprisingly suspenseful story of two writers in love that takes us on a ribald, rollicking journey full of books, boats, voyages, friendships, and feuds." --Stephen Mayer, journalist and author of Salvage "Michael Harris, ace investigative journalist, uses his skills to lay bare secrets of the human heart, and he triumphs. He's got the documents--fiery, frank, lusty letters between emerging icon Farley Mowat and the young Claire Wheeler--as their creative souls merge and clash." --David Beers, Founding Editor, The Tyee "Michael Harris's beautifully written and richly detailed Farley and Claire: A Love Story is both laugh-out-loud entertaining and heartbreaking.
Told with so much colour, grace, and style, this great love story between Canadian author Farley Mowat and Claire Wheeler is a page-turner and a beautiful book." --Kate Malloy, Editor, The Hill Times "Delving through 54 years of love letters between the irascible Farley Mowat and the lovely Claire Wheeler, Harris traces the arc of a Canadian marriage like no other, yet somehow like every other marriage: a country of dark forests, graceful clearings, and deep waters that sustain our thirst for love. Readers will find this stark romance between two very different soul-friends the right sort of tonic for these hateful times." --Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Empire of the Beetle and The Energy of Slaves "Farley Mowat was Canada's greatest iconoclastic environmental icon--fearless, uncompromising, and mischievous. Michael Harris reveals another Farley--angst-ridden and focused on Claire, the love of his life, enmeshed in the strictures and values of a time now gone. I wept, laughed, and commiserated as I followed this amazing love story with a happy ending." --David Suzuki "Farley and Claire is a love story as intimate and enduring as the love it portrays." --Wayne Grady, author of Pandexicon and The Good Father "I proudly published the remarkable Farley, and knew Claire for many years, but now find that their greatest work--about their love--was hidden and is now revealed here so unforgettably by Michael Harris.
" --Douglas Gibson, former President and Publisher of McClelland & Stewart and author of Across Canada by Story.