Come to Say Good-Bye deals with the emotional effects of climate change and planetary degradation. Richard Waterman, fifty-two years old and single, an accountant working for an agency of the Canadian government, accepts the challenge of heading up planning for the physical effects of climate change in Canada east of Hudson Bay. But it is the personal effects he finds most challenging: the death of friends; his love for "Madam", a retired singer; and the future of his adopted daughter Gerda.
