Scott Fotheringham

The Rest Is Silence is an ambitious debut novel by Scott Fotheringham, a specialist who holds a PhD in molecular biology and genetics from Cornell University.

But, don’t let that snippet of biography alarm or mislead you into thinking that Fotheringham can’t write literary fiction. He can. And he did. And won the H. R. (Bill) Percy Prize prior to its publication. And rightly so.

This debut novel, which makes The Rest Is Silence an even more spectacular success regardless of its acclaim through the H. R. Percy Prize award is an intelligent novel with a direct and easily readable tone about complex and serious issues—one of them, environmental activism gone obsessively wrong.

This earthy book is so much more than about a man who exiles himself from the steel and concrete of a city’s metropolis and its polluted ambitions to the far reaches and backwoods of Margaretsville, Nova Scotia...

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