Leslie Howard

Leslie divides her time between Vancouver and a small heirloom cider-apple farm on the Naramata Bench in the Okanagan Valley, a stone’s throw from where she grew up.

Leslie writes historical fiction rooted in British Columbia, following women at the edges of their worlds, drawn from the real and often-overlooked history of the coast.

Her debut, The Brideship Wife, was inspired by the nineteenth-century brideships that carried women from England to the colony. Her second novel, The Celestial Wife, draws on shockingly true events inside an isolated fundamentalist community in the 1960s.