Atman Lodge

Dorothy Smit considers herself a senior resident being that she has lived inside the crumbling walls of Atman Lodge nursing home for so long she can't remember. Estranged from any family her aloneness colours the monotony of her every day grey, beige and lonely.
Until the day Peggy arrives.
Their unexpected and sudden friendship alights the dim and dingy home for the elderly until a friend and co- resident is found murdered across the hall.

Atman Lodge, a novel inspired by real life Canadian news articles highlights the beauty of friendship even in the midst of harrowing circumstances and offers an inside look at the shortcomings of institutionalized living for the elderly in Canada.