Home by the Ocean poignantly expresses Pam’s wish to move back to the Maritimes. She wrote it just after a 2016 summer car trip through New Brunswick, to us in Nova Scotia, and back to Ottawa along the North Shore of the Gaspé Peninsula. She was doing research for a writing project, The Marco Polo Table, and also visiting places she had lived as a child. It was the first time she’d been able to come on a summer holiday for fun, not for a funeral.

And the tug of war between life inland and shore, between work and wages and sea
Tears me apart, wrestles hard with my heart, and I long to be free …

From Home by the Ocean by Pamela Holm

Here’s Miranda Lever singing Home by the Ocean.