Eye Lake

Tristan Hughes was born in Atikokan, Canada and brought up around Llangoed, Ynys Mon where he currently lives. Eye Lake is his fourth novel.

'"Eye Lake" is a sturdy and ... compelling novel, ripe with luminous prose and well-sustained metaphor, a fine investigation of isolation, work, family, the Canadian pioneer spirit and the doomed communities that linger in opportunity's wake.' - "National Post"

'Hughes has done an exquisite job plotting "Eye Lake", but this is only a small part of the novel's pleasures ...[A] deeply satisfying read.' - "Quill and Quire"

'Rarely has there been a more endearing storyteller ... [Hughes's]story of a small town growing and declining on the whims of a few outsize personalities also is the story of families, boom to bust.' - Minneapolis "Star Tribune"

'Fittingly for 2012, folded within the seemingly simple narratives of Hughes' novel, is a lovely rumination on what it means for the world to end, however small that world may be.' - "THIS" magazine

'Hughes is a very good writer, if "good writing" has to do with precision, eloquence, beauty and passionately held belief.' -- "Times Literary Supplement" (on "Revenant")

'A provocative exploration of the difficulty of leaving childhood behind, and about how being treated like an outsider all your life will leave you with a tragic sense of entitlement.' -- "The Walrus" (on "Revenant")