Ann McRae

Elizabeth Ann McRae is a retired lawyer living in Dundas, Ontario. She lives with her husband and adult son, and writes fiction and non-fiction. Ann's stories range through humour, biography, history and historical fiction, sometimes standing on the bridge between two genres. Her first book, Love, Life, Loss and Other Four-Letter Words: Messages to Kathie, provoked tears and laughter, sometime on the same page. To find it on Amazon, search for E. Ann McRae.

The writing of Alia’s Voice was prompted by a comment from a reader of Love, Life, Loss and Other Four-Letter Words. Alia's Voice which touches on the arrival of Alia and her family in Canada. Ann’s portrait of Alia, a mother of four, delves into the challenges of leaving behind one’s country and culture, and taking on something entirely different. Alia and Ann have presented the book together, and celebrated the freedom Alia cherishes in becoming a Canadian.

Flashing Lights at Night: The Miraculous Story of a Child's Recovery from a Traumatic Brain Injury is a very different sort of book. The near-catastrophic car accident near Brantford, Ontario on the night of December 22, 2022 leads readers into a true and terrifying story of a brain-injured child and long journey back to health. His parents and a close knit but far-flung community, journey with Caleb through a healing story that will grip you, from the nose-pressed-to-the-glass moments in the emergency department in Hamilton, Ontario to a prairie child's dream to attend a Maple Leaf's game in Toronto, to Caleb's return to music class in rural Saskatchewan, and everything in between.

Ann continues to find story material in the amazing world around us.