The WhirlpoolBy: Jane Urquhart Written in luminous prose, The Whirlpool is a haunting tale set in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in the summer of 1889. This is the season of reckless river stunts, a time when the undertakers widow is busy with funerals, her days shadowed by her young sons curious silence. Across the street in Kicks Hotel, where Fleda and her husband, David McDougal, have temporary rooms, Fleda dreams of the place above the whirlpool where she first