The High Road

✍ Scribed by Fallis, Terry

• Book ID: 107075320
• Publisher: Emblem Editions
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 255 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780771047879

✦ Synopsis

Review

**Praise for The Best Laid Plans :
**"Amusing, enlightening . . . it deftly explores the Machiavellian machinations of Ottawa's political culture."
— *Globe and Mail

_"Brisk and humorous."
— _Ottawa Citizen
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"A funny book that could only have been written by someone with firsthand knowledge of politics . . . including its occasionally absurd side."
— The Hon. Allan Rock, former Justice Minister and Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations

"Terry Fallis has found the cure for Canada's political malaise: a stubborn, old, irreverent Scotsman with nothing to lose."
— Tom Allen, CBC Radio host

About the Author

Terry Fallis grew up in Toronto and went to McMaster University. Drawn to politics at an early age, he worked for Cabinet Ministers both at Queen's Park and in Ottawa. His first book, The Best Laid Plans , began as a podcast, then was self-published, won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, was re-published to great reviews by McClelland & Stewart, and was selected the 2011 winner of CBC’s Canada Reads competition. His follow-up novel is The High Road. Terry Fallis is a skilled public speaker who relishes book promotion. He is the head of the public relations agency Thornley Fallis. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two children and blogs about his writing life at www.terryfallis.com