My husband and I bought Journeywoman last week and are fighting each other to read it. Love it – fascinating, funny, touching and compelling.

writer

So inspiring. Beautiful, compelling writing.

writer

I had to put my copy of Journeywoman down to send you this email. I’ve been marking my tools for years with a dab of bright red nail polish. It just tore my head off to read that you had done the same! I can’t even begin to tell you how much I’m enjoying your book. So much so, that I can’t wait to finish it so I can read it again.

female carpenter

Thank you for writing Journeywoman and specifically for encouraging women to work in traditionally men’s work. It’s important that this be encouraged not only for the women, but for the men too. It humanizes the workplace when there are non-men present. Thanks for helping make it happen more.

tradesman

The book demonstrates how, ultimately, patriarchy diminishes us all. Brava!

female writer, English professor

I picked up Journeywoman and pretty much sat down till I got to the last page. It cracked me up – like when you changed your outfit twice before your first day of work – and made me weep and kept me riveted… The personal story, the ‘70s flashbacks, the harrowing saga of gender, the union history, the immersion into what it is to work in the trades as a woman, but also for any non-trades reader, a virtual, 3-D tour of what the work entails… Loved it all. Bravo!

female family therapist

What a great read! I thoroughly enjoyed it and didn’t want the story to end. Thank you for writing this important book. It should be required reading for young women who take their rights for granted.

female painter

I couldn’t put it down. I too worked in non-traditional jobs in the 1980s in Toronto. I was a single mother and being paid “men’s wages” enabled me to buy a decent home where I could raise my sons… While reading your book I started to put check marks beside the sentences and paragraphs that were similar to my own experiences and the whole book is now full of check marks!!

female stationary engineer, labourer, truck driver, electrical technologist, union executive

Journeywoman is a great read, well paced, thoroughly interesting and inspiring.

editor

You’ve heard about books that are difficult to put down – well, your new book is one of them. Reading the darn thing compulsively, as I did, got in the way of ever so many other important activities. Today I was driving behind a flatbed truck loaded with trusses. I now have a much fuller appreciation of the knowledge and skill that go into building one of these on the job.

writer, university creative writing instructor