Kate Braid

1 week ago | 49thshelf.com | Trevor Corkum |Kate Braid |Tim Welsh |Kerry Clare

Finding Flora is up for giveaway until the end of May! Head to our giveaways page for your chance to win, and to check out all the other books up for grabs. *****Finding Flora is a rollicking historical novel set in turn-of-the-century Alberta about a young woman on the run from her abusive husband who uses a legal loophole to claim a homestead in the Wild West—perfect for fans of Outlawed and The Giver of Stars.

Dec 8, 2024 | theglobeandmail.com | Kate Braid

Sep 23, 2024 | cmaj.ca | Kate Braid

I wake in the night feeling a strangeness about my heart, breathless, as if I’ve just climbed a mountain. But how is this possible? I’m young and healthy and the steadiness of the heart is a given, no? Like digestion, like dreaming. So how is it possible I feel this vague but powerful unease? The heart is a pump that circulates blood. The generator for this pump is a built-in pacemaker that sends out electrical impulses, causing the heart’s four chambers to contract and relax in a coordinated way.