Along the way, J.M. Kearns wrote a novel called The Deep End, available on amazon.com.

In it, Kearns probes the attachments that can either tear us apart or make us whole—attachments to nightmarish day jobs, to family members who have drifted away, to beloved childhood places that we can’t return to—and to the lover right in front of us that we resist truly knowing.

FROM THE REVIEWS:

"This is a touching story about emotional attachments—to family, the past, childhood places, newfound loves. There were many things that moved me. It was a delight to read, bittersweet and hopeful, like life." — Claire, Kiss a Cloud
 
"Kearns knows how to craft an evocative passage...the prose sings." — Danielle Groen, The Globe and Mail

"The Deep End is wonderful. As I read it, I kept thinking 'I remember that!'"  — Laurie Coulter, author of Kings and Carpenters

"Irresistible. The type of post-modern LadLit that is seldom celebrated as sharply as it should be. If you read it you will probably like it, it's as simple as that... He's the real deal." — Linda L. Richards, January Magazine

"In The Deep End, J.M. Kearns has crafted a voice both immediate and profound, seasoned by its perceptions of irony and loss, but clarified by its embrace of what remains. His story grips us because in many ways it is our own." — Terence Culleton, poet and author of A Communion of Saints

Historical note: This novel was originally published in Canada by Key Porter Books in 2007, under the title ex-Cottagers in Love.