In Harold Bindloss's novel, 'A Damaged Reputation', Brooke, a young Englishman, has drifted perilously far while living in the wilds of British Columbia with his only companion, Jimmy. Brooke had invested most of his savings into a four-hundred-acre virgin soil, hoping to make his fortune growing fruit. However, he soon discovered that clearing the land and growing crops was not as easy as he had imagined. Brooke had resigned himself to a life of apathetic resignation until he met Tom Gordon's Bella.