- Margaret Atwood recently tweeted about The Convict Lover to her 1.74 million followers

- First published in 1996, The Convict Lover was an instant bestseller. A finalist for the Governor General's Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for Nonfiction, it won a Talking Book of the Year Award. It was named one of the year's best books by The Globe & Mail, Quill & Quire, Elm Street, and Maclean's.

- "A tour de force. Simonds' prose is alluring, her historical detective work is flawless . . . What makes The Convict Lover soar off the page, though, is Simonds' ability to probe into the psyches of real people, and to find there imaginative truth." -- The Globe and Mail

- In 2017, Project Bookmark Canada erected a plaque in Garrigan Park, the site of the former quarry, to honor the place of The Convict Lover in Canada's literary landscape.