The Plague Saint

Nora D.S. Robins is co-ordinator of Internal Collections at the
University of Calgary Libraries.

By the year 2010, Canada is a country devastated by plague and under the
monolithic control of the Church of the Survivors. Lily Dalriada has
broken the rules of the Church by conceiving an unsanctioned child. On
the run, she seeks refuge with the resistance movement. While in hiding,
she discovers the door into virtual history and finds herself in
plague-ridden Florence during the Middle Ages. Moving back and forth in
time, Lily seeks an answer to the riddle of the plague saint, not
knowing whom to trust. The story is told in flashbacks and letters that
explore Lily’s relationship with her father, her daughter, and her
lover.

Rita Donovan is an Ottawa writer whose previous novels, Dark Travels
and Daisy Circus, were very well received. The Plague Saint rewards the
patient reader with an imaginative story set in a future Canada.