“In his novel, The Kissing Fence, Thomas-Peter provides a compelling read that reminds us of the impact of generational trauma and the resilience of those compelled to look back at their past in order to understand and find solace in their present.”

—Stella Leventoyannis Harvey, author of Finding Callidora

“Thomas-Peter lifts the curtain on a tragic, little-known time in Canada’s past, then weaves its repercussions into the fabric of the next generation. A compelling story of faith and loyalty, abuse and adversity, and the hope for a better tomorrow.”

—Genevieve Graham, bestselling author of At the Mountain’s Edge

"Thomas-Peter is a more than competent, if not brilliant prose stylist, and he tells a too-little-known story from Canada's inglorious past well. ... [The Kissing Fence is] a work that is valuable both for its real, if flawed, literary merit and for the lost history it retrieves. Recommended."

--Tom Sandborn, The Vancouver Sun

“A compulsively readable novel, The Kissing Fence is a story about resilience and resistance in the face of a shameful, nearly forgotten episode in Canadian history. Insightful and sensitively told, it is a timely story that serves to remind us of the destructive multigenerational effects of the forced assimilation of children.”

—Iona Whishaw, author of the bestselling Lane Winslow mysteries

“B.A. Thomas-Peter, brings to this portrayal of generational divide his long experience as a psychologist and forensic psychiatrist … The Kissing Fence recalls one (of all too many) distressing and damaging episodes in B.C. history, animating events through a fictionalized case study, profiling behaviours and drawing concrete attention to differences between two notions of security. … Earnest in both manner and message, Thomas-Peter is being serious about serious issues, some of them involving faith and justice, cruelty and the law, but mostly (focussing as he does on the fractured lives of his two main characters) about what happens to the mind.”

—The Ormsby Review