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Des Kennedy is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, author and environmental activist. He is the author of four books of essays including a memoir, The Passionate Gardener (Greystone Books, 2006), and three novels including Climbing Patrick's Mountain (Brindle & Glass, 2009). Noted as one of the most influential personalities on the Canadian gardening scene, Kennedy writes a regular column for BCLiving magazine and has been a columnist for the Globe and Mail. He lives on Denman Island, BC.
“Des Kennedy's Commune is a gorgeous ode to dreams and their dreamers, a story of sex, soil, and sacrifice. Told with narrative verve through quicksilver prose, Commune conjures an agrarian idealism that feels increasingly relevant to our troubled world, rendering a uniquely BC experience powerfully universal. I loved every glorious page.” —Michael Christie, author of Greenwood “Commune takes readers back to what I used to think was a simpler time and way of life. But this gem of a novel has helped me understand that the 1970s were just as complicated, challenging and beautiful as the decades since. Thanks to Des Kennedy’s pitch-perfect prose and diverse cast of memorable characters, I was right there on the farm with the other dreamers, as I turned the pages well into the night and the next morning, too. Kennedy is a gifted storyteller.” —Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour “Des Kennedy reaps a harvest of delights in a gleeful, fictional memoir that explores the joys and woes of going back to the land in the 1970s. Des's love, respect, concern and hope for the natural world shine through his expressive yet playful prose.” —William Deverell, author of Stung, finalist for the Dashiell Hammett Prize
