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In The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston transforms the story of longtime Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood into a vastly inventive drama of ambition, history, and landscape, aided by the entirely fictional creation of Sheilagh Fielding: unconsummated love interest, eccentric journalist, and a character so vivid and singular that she even overshadows Smallwood himself, one of the true originals of Canadian history.