This widely acclaimed debut novel, so gorgeously yet simply told, depicts no fewer than fifty years in the life of-and in the many familiar lives of-the Chambers family of Stonebrook, Ontario. As Louisa Kamps wrote in The New York Times: "Burnard soon proves, in this increasingly intricate and rewarding book, to have a keen appreciation for the sad, surprising, joyous, important things that happen to people whose lives, by every demographic measure, could be called normal in the extreme. . . . Her painstaking focus on seemingly mundane details makes the events that shape her characters' lives not only believable but also somehow bigger than the moment, universally true." An award-winning bestseller that first appeared in Canada in 1999, A Good House is extraordinarily moving, beautifully crafted, and unforgettable.