Jardine Miller Publishing: 5 books

A poignant story of a child’s life destroyed by anxiety and fear. This is the story of a young girl’s struggle with social phobia from the time it surfaced when she was nine years old until her death ten years later. It is told by her mother and relates all the misconceptions and misunderstandings...

Daffodil Dancing is a novel about the impact of social phobia on friends and family members, in addition to its victim. The story takes place over twenty years and begins with Terri coming home to Toronto, after spending several years working in England. She finds her new job, in her family’s store...

Set in Toronto, this is the story of a woman and her three children whose lives become progressively tied to the fortunes of a medical devices manufacturing company, which has been jointly owned by the McGrath and LaPlante families since its inception in the late nineteenth century. In the early 1980s,...

Two children desperately try to keep their family together in a slum in Victorian Bromley-by-Bow. On their mother's death, they are taken to Annie Macpherson's House of Industry leaving their small sister and baby brother with their only relative. After spending the winter and spring in the relative...

SONGS OF MY SOUL is the poetry of a Canadian teenager who took her own life, in November 1991, after struggling, for more than ten years, with what began as school phobia (also known as school refusal today) and progressed to, social phobia, panic disorder and agoraphobia. While victims...