WELCOME
Theresa Shea’s widely-celebrated debut novel, The Unfinished Child, was published in 2013. It sold over 12,000 copies, was a popular book club selection, and was nominated for several awards. The Shade Tree, winner of the 2020 Guernica Prize for best novel manuscript, is her much-anticipated follow-up.

What readers said about The Unfinished Child . . .

“In its account of almost half a century in the lives of two white southern sisters and of the African Americans whose experiences are inextricable from theirs, The Shade Tree is brutally personal, heartbreakingly political – and remarkably written. Theresa Shea has combined boldness and subtlety with swaths of compassion to come up with a novel that’s both complicated and ferociously clear.”
Joan Barfoot
To be published in October, 2021! Theresa’s Shea’s latest novel, The Shade Tree, is now available for pre-order.

“Every once in a while a book comes along that impacts me on an extraordinary level, and I want to encourage everyone I know to read it, and I want to talk about it, because it makes me think and feel so deeply. The Unfinished Child is one such book.”
The 49th Parallel
EVENTS
The Shade Tree Release Date
The long -awaited second novel by Canadian author, Theresa Shea is due to land at a book-seller near you on October 1, 2021.