is best known for the complexity and intimate nature of her fiction. She is the author of a collection of stories, Small Change, and the novels A Student of Weather, Garbo Laughs and Late Nights on Air. Of the latter, which won the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the jury commented, "this extraordinary book is...a dazzling virtuoso praise song to Canada and things Canadian; but ultimately it is a flawlessly-crafted and timeless story, masterfully told."
Her new novel, Alone in the Classroom, opens in 1930 in Saskatchewan where a school principal is suspected of abusing a student. Seven years later a girl picking wild cherries meets a violent end. These are only two of the mysteries in the life of Connie Flood that her niece, Anne, tries to unravel. In doing so, Anne becomes connected with her aunt's past, as aunt, niece, lover; mother, daughter, granddaughter, in a tense, intricate and seductive novel of emotional triangles masterfully told.
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In 1930, a school principal in Saskatchewan is suspected of abusing a student. Seven years later, on the other side of the country, a girl picking wild cherries meets a violent end. These...
These twenty superbly crafted linked stories navigate the difficult realm of friendship, charting its beginnings and ends, its intimacies and betrayals, its joys and humiliations. A mothe...
Hay brings an extraordinary attunement to the sensuousness of landscape in a powerful first novel. The story begins circa 1930 on the drought-ravished prairies of Saskatchewan. Two intrin...
Elizabeth Hay’s runaway national bestseller is a funny, sad-eyed, deliciously entertaining novel about a woman caught in a tug of war between real life and the films of the past. Infl...
The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs. Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has return...
