Book Launch: Sackville House by Paul Nicholas Mason '76
Join Trent Alumni Reads on November 4 for the launch of Sackville House, the latest novel by Paul Nicholas Mason ’76.
Set at Trent in the 1970s, the novel follows scholarship student Michael Wycliffe as he navigates friendship, privilege, and belonging. It explores the relationships and discoveries that shape us during our university years, against a backdrop that Trent readers may recognize.
Hear Paul read from the book and join a conversation with the author. Reception and book signing to follow.
About the book:
In 1976, Michael Wycliffe—son of a troubled single mother—earns a scholarship to Trent University. Longing to escape his childhood and modest Ontario village, he is pulled into the luminous world of Colin, heir to immense wealth, whose confidence and ease seem to promise a different way of being. Their friendship unsettles and awakens Michael, granting him entry into realms of privilege that both enchant and estrange him. As he comes of age, desire and disillusionment shadow his steps—romance falters, friendships fracture, and the chasm between poverty and affluence widens with every choice he makes. Woven through his journey is a quiet but insistent inquiry into faith—its comforts, its contradictions—and a tender, searching exploration of sexuality and intimacy. A finely wrought portrait of a young man negotiating the fault lines of class, longing, and belief, Sackville House is a transformative novel where love and faith illuminate, and where the self is shaped in that fragile space between who we are and who we hope to become.
About the author:
Born 1958 in London, England, Paul Nicholas Mason now makes his home in Cobourg, Ontario. A teacher for thirty years, Paul is now a film, television and voice actor, and accomplished author whose novels include Battered Soles, The Red Dress, The Night Drummer, The Rogue Wave and To Our Graves.
This event is proudly presented by Trent Alumni Reads.