The ObserverThe Observer

Julia arrives in Medway in the 1990s, accompanying her beloved Hardy on his first posting as an RCMP officer, she tries to explain their new life to old friends from the city. Julia takes a job as editor of the local newspaper, The Observer--where she gathers knowledge of the community's surface joys and sorrows. Meanwhile, Hardy works the harder side, immersed in violence and loss. At first this new life together is an adventure, but as in all the best stories, time will both darken and deepen it. 'The Observer' is grounded in the authors experience as an RCMP members spouse starting in Mayerthorpe, AB. Marina Endicott writes with the understated intelligence and sure insight of a master novelist, piecing together shattered memories and haunting details in a quietly devastating revelation of the fragility of life, death, and law in a tightknit and vulnerable community.