Sackville House
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Pub Date Oct 15 2026 | Archive Date Nov 1 2026
Literary Press Group of Canada | Now or Never Publishing
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Description
In 1976, Michael Wycliffe—son of a troubled single mother—earns a scholarship to Trent University. Longing to escape his childhood and modest Ontario village, he is pulled into the luminous world of Colin, heir to immense wealth, whose confidence and ease seem to promise a different way of being. Their friendship unsettles and awakens Michael, granting him entry into realms of privilege that both enchant and estrange him. As he comes of age, desire and disillusionment shadow his steps—romance falters, friendships fracture, and the chasm between poverty and affluence widens with every choice he makes. Woven through his journey is a quiet but insistent inquiry into faith—its comforts, its contradictions—and a tender, searching exploration of sexuality and intimacy.
A finely wrought portrait of a young man negotiating the fault lines of class, longing, and belief, Sackville House is a transformative novel where love and faith illuminate, and where the self is shaped in that fragile space between who we are and who we hope to become.
Advance Praise
“Sackville House is a uniquely Canadian retelling of a classic that explores spiritual reconciliation, redemption, and yearning for divine love. But it doesn’t shy away from the spiritual trauma that can wreak havoc when religion is weaponized. Brimming with vivid characters, it’s a story that could appeal to readers across the spiritual spectrum, from agnostics, to believers, to those who, like me, ‘carry… faith like a wound.’” —Beth Granger, author of Born and Razed: Surviving the Cult was Only Half the Battle
“Paul Nicholas Mason is that rare Canadian novelist who can move through genre the way a born storyteller moves through weather—pilgrimage comedy, coming-of-age, thriller, mystery—yet never loses the deeper current that animates all his work. I’ve read everything he’s published, and what strikes me each time is how he uses the familiar machinery of plot to smuggle in what our age likes to call “peculiar” questions—grace, redemption, moral inheritance, the ache for transcendence—only to reveal that they are not peculiar at all, but central. Following on To Our Graves, Sackville House feels like the culmination of that long project: a richly readable novel with the propulsion of a page-turner and the aftertaste of something genuinely spiritual. These are books made for deep reading groups and classrooms—because they reward re-reading—and they’re also made for adaptation: cinematic, character-driven, and built with the kind of narrative clarity the very best CBC television could actually honour. Mason is doing something in Canadian fiction right now that almost nobody else dares: writing novels that entertain without apologizing for the soul.” —Brock Eldon, author of Null Point and The Commonplace Book
Marketing Plan
- Advertising in Literary Review of Canada, Anglican Journal, Watershed and Trent Magazine.
- Peterborough and Trent University launch Launch
- Print & Digital Ad campaign
- Author tour
- Advertising in Literary Review of Canada, Anglican Journal, Watershed and Trent Magazine.
- Peterborough and Trent University launch Launch
- Print & Digital Ad campaign
- Author tour
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781834270036 |
| PRICE | CA$29.95 (CAD) |
| PAGES | 303 |