“Bush’s deeply resonant ecological retelling of The Tempest showcases a ‘brave new world’ as ironic as Shakespeare’s: brave because it is startling, dangerous and inescapable for those left alive; new because it really isn’t, merely the whirlwind humanity has sowed for its children to reap.” — Brian Bethune, Maclean’s

“Blaze Island is a fascinating and prescient story. With climate change as the backdrop, Catherine Bush’s lyrical portrait of the northern island landscape and a young woman’s passion for the land offers a frightening warning of how big business will surely adapt to the changes to benefit itself. Bush’s story is compelling—we watch the hurricane unfold, as only a brilliant writer can show us—and offers a moving and soulful primer for climate survival.” — Shani Mootoo, author of Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab

“Climate change is both an external and internal phenomenon in Catherine Bush’s brilliant new novel, Blaze Island—an ever-moving storm of emotion and politics that unfolds under churning skies and life-or-death stakes. Bush brings together a complicated cast of three-dimensional men and women, all fighting with and against each other in the name of saving the planet … or making a buck.” — Michael Redhill, Giller Prize winning author of Bellevue Square