Trevor Cole’s debut novel, Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life, was short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Can-Carib region). His third novel, Practical Jean, was short-listed for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and won the 2011 Leacock Medal for Humour. Cole has also written for the stage, and his journalism has won nine National Magazine Awards. His new novel is Hope Makes Love.

Hope Makes Love

All former major-league baseball player Zep Baker needs to put his life back on track is to revive his marriage by convincing his wife to return to Tampa with their daughter. But his wife won’t fall for his pleading or his old tricks. He needs a new game plan. Enter Hope, a neuroscience researcher who he persuades to help him in this endeavour. The resulting life-experiment takes both characters to places they did not foresee and for which they are not prepared.

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