Nadine Doolittle

Nadine Doolittle is an award-winning reporter formerly with the Low Down to Hull and Back News, and On Track columnist for the Ottawa Metro News covering transit issues in the nation's capital. 

She was born in Comox, B.C. in 1960 and has lived in Vancouver and Toronto before settling in Wakefield, Quebec in 1995. 

Nadine graduated with a degree in Theatre Arts from VCC-Langara College's prestigious Studio 58 program. After ten years in theatre, she switched careers to become a casting associate at Alliance Communications in Toronto where she worked on numerous projects including 'Due South' and Paul Quarrington's 'Whale Music.'  

Nadine now makes her home on 22-forested acres surrounded by farms in Lascelles, Quebec with her partner and their four children. She is currently at work on her second novel. 

“Iced Under”

Raw from a painful divorce, Sara Wolesley exiles herself and her two daughters to a dilapidated cottage on Hennessy Lake in Western Quebec.

The ice is clear that year, like black cellophane stretching as far as the eye can see.

But the cottage is not the idyll Sara imagined it would be. The cold, the isolation, and money pressure bring her close to a breakdown. Faced with the threat of losing custody of her kids, Sara tries to get a job cleaning for a reclusive man across the ice but he turns her away. With her failures piling up, Sara escapes to the lake where she discovers a child under the ice. Seven year old Oralee Pelletier has been missing for six months.

~ Shortlisted for the 2009 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel ~