Providence Island

"In this gripping novel, when his father's funeral brings Ray Carrier back to cottage country, where he spent summers as a child, memories of the past -- like the mystery surrounding a terrible death -- keep him from leaving again." Cottage Life Magazine

"Ray is driven to search for the font of his yearning, as hes being held back in life by a narrative that he must close out. We all seem to have those narratives, those back stories that add baggage, and wed all do well to deal with them, as has Ray. Confront it and walk away ... if you can." The Hamilton Spectator

"Providence Island by Gregor Robinson explores the early influences, often unacknowledged, that shapes the adults we become." Janet Armstrong, The Muskokan

"Toronto writer Gregor Robinson channels F. Scott Fitzgerald in his second novel, Providence Island, an examination of family, secrets and class distinctions. The narrator, Ray Carrier, moves between two worlds that of the residents of Merrick Bay, a town servicing the wealthy summer residents of Ontario cottage country, and the extraordinary rich and complicated Miller family, which has its own island, that of the title. But Ray belongs in neither world, and Robinson makes it clear that crossing class lines is a recipe for heartache and tragedy." The Globe and Mail

"A stunning tour of class conflict in cottage country." The Owen-Sound Sun Times