Fiction

Jan McKemmish | Common Knowledge | Leonie Smith and Anne Mack, the two narrators, investigate the intimacy and secrets of family and community. They discover facets of madness, murder a

Helen Hodgman | Passing Remarks | When middle-aged, academic Rosemary meets twenty-seven-year-old Billie-a woman with a tough bike and even tougher attitude-she goes weak at the knees.

Farzana Doctor | Stealing Nasreen | Stealing Nasreen is a novel about the lives of three very different people, all of whom belong to the same small religious community. Set in Toronto w

Janet Maxwell | Mum | The last thing Jesse ever wanted was to be a mother. She ended up raising her sister, their grandchildren, and an adopted daughter.

Joan Lindau | Letting in the Night | From Publishers Weekly

The use of a journal as framework for narrative is a faulty strategy in this novel about two women confronting their ambiva

Eva Jones | Thirteen | `English Evalore is thirteen years old, a pain to her teachers, a pain to her parents, a pain to her psychiatrist, and a pain to listen to – this nove

Lisa Alther | Kinflicks | Lisa Alther reels through the ups and downs of Ginny Babcock’s coming of age in Hullsport, Tennessee, during the ’50s and ’60s. Ginny bounces from one