EVERY LITTLE THING

Chad Pelley's new novel about the flipside of love, like his award winning debut, cuts no corners in exposing how a secret kept to protect love can just as easily destroy a life.

If you could take one thing back... Every Little Thing explores how lives are shaped by the butterfly effect of decisions that go desperately wrong. After a shocking family tragedy, Cohen Davies feels isolated, guilty, and numb to everything except the allure of his new neighbor, Allie Crosbie. She's a firecracker, bursting with life, and he sees in her the perfect place to bury his troubles. But when Allie's father asks an unfathomable favour, Cohen's decision to help him sets off a chain reaction of irrevocable events that leave one man dead, one man assaulted, and Cohen incarcerated. And in the aftermath, Allie will reveal a shocking secret of her own. CHAD PELLEY is a multi-award-winning writer from St. John's, Newfoundland. His debut novel, Away from Everywhere, was a Coles bestseller, won the NLAC's CBC Emerging Artist of the Year award, and was shortlisted for the 2010 ReLit award and the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer of the Year award. It has been adopted by multiple university English courses, and a film adaptation is underway. His short fiction has been anthologized and published in textbooks and leading literary journals such as Prairie Fire and The Antigonish Review. Chad also founded Salty Ink and has written for a variety of publications, such as Quill & Quire, The National Post, the Telegraph-Journal, and Atlantic Books Today.