The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

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The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a novel by Wayne Johnston, published in 1998. Johnston's breakthrough work, the novel was a Canadian bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the 1998 Governor General's Award for English fiction.

In 2003, Justin Trudeau championed the book on CBC Radio's Canada Reads.

A work of historical fiction, the novel presents a fictionalized portrayal of real-life Newfoundland politician Joey Smallwood, the political leader who brought the province into Canadian Confederation in 1949. A major literary device in the novel is his lifelong correspondence with (fictional) journalist Sheilagh Fielding.