A Good House was published in two countries and was dedicated to Saskatchewan Order of Merit awardee and poet Anne Szumigalski who had helped Burnard during her budding days in her literary career. .
The book was published by Harper Flamingo in Canada in 1999 and later by Henry Holt and Company in United States of America. It has ten chapters and is dedicated to poet Anne Szumigalski who had helped Burnard during her budding days in her literary career. In 1989, she was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. 
