Anger looms large in entertaining new novel from Family Law showrunner

Susin Nielsen’s move from novels for readers aged eight to 12 to adults began with a not-so-great interaction with a child. Well over a decade ago Vancouver’s Nielsen, who at the time had written for the TV shows Robson Arms and Degrassi, was in Toronto speaking to a gym full of kids about writing for TV versus writing books. During the talk, the author of seven middle-grade-aged novels including The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (2012), winner of the Governor General’s