“A wonderful love story…Buchanan weaves Niagara Falls’ history and her storytelling together masterfully.” − Elle

“Few first novels exhibit the mastery, maturity and majesty of Buchanan’s riveting fictional debut, a heart-wrenching, soul-racking, spell-binding tale interwoven with guts, anguish and glory guaranteed to remain in readers’ minds.” − The Globe and Mail

“The Day the Falls Stood Still stands on its own elegant prose and the vibrant voice of its narrator.” − USA Today

“The Day the Falls Stood Still is an extraordinarily assured first novel…It is a southern Ontario Gothic of the highest order, and deserves to take its place alongside the best novels of the Great War.” − National Post

1915. Niagara Falls. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath, who has led a sheltered existence as the younger daughter of the director of the Niagara Power Company, meets Tom Cole by chance on a trolley platform, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to him. He is not from her world. Rough-hewn and fearless, he lives off what the river provides and has an uncanny knack for reading the whims of the falls. His daring river rescues render him a local hero and cast him as a threat to the power companies that seek to harness the power of the falls for themselves. As the paths of Bess and Tom become entwined, Buchanan spins a capriciously imagined tale of love, loss, class and early environmentalism.