D.G. Curwin
YA Author
D. G. Curwin is a Canadian author writing character-driven YA and historical fiction about friendship, belonging, identity, memory, and the complicated things people know about one another.
Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, Curwin grew up in Atlantic Canada before a life and career that took him considerably farther afield. The places, language, social attitudes, music, technology, and peculiar freedoms of growing up in the 1960s and 70s now provide much of the texture behind his fiction.
His first novel, THE BONDING, is set in a fictional New Brunswick town in 1978. The YA literary novel follows sixteen-year-old Dylan Pierce and the friendships that change when an extraordinary ability makes other people’s thoughts much harder to ignore. At its centre are questions of consent, trust, loyalty, and queer identity, with a speculative element that remains grounded in the lives of its teenage characters.
Curwin is also writing historical fiction set in Victorian London, including a story about two sixteen-year-old boys who form a discreet investigative partnership in 1888.
He has multisensory aphantasia, meaning he does not voluntarily experience mental images, sounds, smells, tastes, or touch. Rather than limiting his creativity, he finds that it has made him unusually attentive to detail, memory, and the mechanics of how stories are constructed. He writes about aphantasia as well as fiction, writing, nostalgia, and the strange business of becoming a novelist later in life.
He writes under the name D. G. Curwin.
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THE BONDING
A quiet life. A dangerous gift.
Dylan Pierce has spent his life hearing what no one else can.
On the night of his sixteenth birthday, that changes.
Some connections are chosen.
Some are not.
My work in progress.
Ashcroft & Grey
A Matter of Discretion
Thomas Grey has spent four years pretending to speak for the dead. Every ghostly whisper, every moving table, every miracle has been nothing more than his own carefully crafted deception.
When London’s most celebrated medium dismisses him without warning, sixteen-year-old Thomas is left with nowhere to go but the life he thought he’d left behind.
Henry Ashcroft should have been just another sitter.
Instead, he offers Thomas a home.
Thomas survived the streets by becoming whatever other people needed him to be. Henry Ashcroft is the first person who asks him to be himself.
With Thomas’s extraordinary talents and Henry’s connections, resources and quiet confidence, the two establish Ashcroft & Grey, a discreet agency where London’s most influential families bring the problems they cannot trust to the police and the secrets they cannot afford to make public.
As the cases grow more dangerous, Thomas discovers that the greatest risk is not breaking into a house or outwitting a blackmailer. It is trusting another person with the truth about himself.
Because some partnerships solve problems.
The rarest ones become family.
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