The Longest Road: Finding Peace with the Past

Lisa M. Rohlmann is a former business owner in Shelburne, Ontario.

Maureen Lyttle is a professional watercolorist and member of the elite
Canadian Society of Painters in Water-Colour. She is also an
accomplished author, as demonstrated in this powerful memoir, her second
book.

Lyttle emigrated from Ireland to Canada as a child. At the age of six,
she had to internalize the traumatic effects of her alcoholic father’s
death. Her staunchly Catholic mother struggled on alone, raising her 10
children in a frequently abusive way. While attending high school,
Lyttle got involved in alcohol and drugs, and found herself pregnant at
17. The decision to keep her son was not an easy one. Sick of the abuse
meted out by her drug-dealing boyfriend, she moved into her own flat and
raised her son, Joseph, with love and devotion. Her world was rocked
years later when DNA tests confirmed that Joseph’s father was not his
biological father.

Lyttle’s harrowing and ultimately inspiring story holds the
reader’s attention from start to finish.