The Famished Lover

by Alan Cumyn

In The Famished Lover, Alan Cumyn has created Ramsay Crome, an artist who never quite comes home from the First World War. Burning with an intense appetite for beauty, for human contact, for life and love, Ramsay stumbles into a troubled marriage just as the gears of history are aligning for depression and more war.

A master of strong, fluid prose, Alan Cumyn has an ability to portray characters that are compellingly human in all of their strengths and flaws.

(From Publisher)

Alan Cumyn is the author of six critically acclaimed novels for adults, including Burridge Unbound, a finalist for the Giller Prize and The Sojourn, the novel in which Ramsay Crome first appears. His Owen Skye novels for children have won or been nominated for ten national awards . He has lived in many parts of Canada as well as in China and Indonesia. He now makes his home in Ottawa with his wife and two daughters.