Books by Sandy Day
Character-driven fiction about ordinary lives, private truths, family, friendship, longing, reinvention, and the stories people tell themselves.
Where the Night Winds Wail
A Novel of Obsession, Secrets, and Reckoning
In 1998 small-town Ontario, mechanic Jake Jackson has built a life designed to keep pain out—quiet, solitary, and barricaded from the past he fled. Then a fire, a stray dog, and Charlotte, a woman with nowhere else to go, upend his careful order. As connection deepens, old secrets surface and fear-driven choices threaten the fragile bond between them. A haunting, character-driven novel of love, shame, and reckoning.
Odd Mom Out
A Warm and Witty Novel of Friendship and Reinvention with a Mother-of-the-Bride Twist
Fifty-two, newly divorced, and back in her childhood home, Trudy Asp is trying to keep her bakery afloat and her heart intact. But when her daughter announces a sudden wedding in Croatia, Trudy must face her fears, her ex, and the question she’s been avoiding: is it too late to begin again?
Head on Backwards, Chest Full of Sand
A feverish summer of first love, longing, and becoming.
Seventeen-year-old Livvy arrives in Cape Breton with a suitcase, a notebook, and one certainty: Kane, her older lover, will follow. While she waits for his letters, the island opens around her — salt wind, cousins, wild beaches, artists, secrets, and an aunt whose freedom looks more complicated up close. Restless, romantic, and aching to be chosen, Livvy turns every silence into a sign and every longing into language. Lyrical, funny, and intimate, Head on Backwards, Chest Full of Sand is an upmarket coming-of-age novel about obsession, girlhood, and the summer when wanting to be loved becomes its own dangerous education.
Fred’s Funeral
Fred Sadler is dead—and his dang-blasted sister-in-law is making a mess of his legacy.
Hovering near the ceiling at York Manor, Fred watches in outrage as prim, pious Viola rummages through his belongings, misplaces his war medals, and turns him into a war-damaged oddball. But Fred knows there’s more to his story—and he can’t quite leave until someone else knows it too.
Fred’s Funeral is a witty, darkly comic magic realist tale of memory, legacy, and the family stories that become truth.
An Empty Nest: A Summer of Stories
She didn’t expect to miss her kids.
A divorced empty nester flees to the family cottage with the cat her children left behind—only to find sisters, squirrels, noisy vacationers, and old family ghosts waiting for her.
A funny, poignant summer read about family baggage, empty nest syndrome, and trying to find peace in a season of turbulence.
Chatterbox: Poems
A luminous poetry collection written during a tumultuous year of love, loss, and reconciliation.
One hundred and ten poems guide you into the bewildering world of emotional tumult—from passion and longing to grief and despair but eventually to transformational healing. Enter a world conjured from fairytales and dolls, the Garden of Eden and The Wizard of Oz; these stunning poems abound with the imagery of moths and mice, roosters and crows, sugar and apples, the sun and the moon. If you are inspired by the work of Rupi Kaur, Mary Oliver, or Amanda Lovelace you will fall deeply into the realm of Chatterbox: Poems.
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