Zusatztext 'Striking! thoughtful! full of unexpected twists! The Outlander is that rare delight: a novel that is beautifully written yet as gripping as any airport page-turner ... there are echoes of Cormac McCarthy. Hugely enjoyable ... A rattling good yarn' Informationen zum Autor Gil Adamson has written two acclaimed books of poetry! Primitive and Ashland! and her work has also been widely published in magazines and literary journals. Her novel! The Outlander! won the International Association of Crime Writers' Dashiell Hammett Prize and the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Prize. It has also been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She lives with writer Kevin Connolly in Toronto. A funny, haunting portrait of an offbeat family in this episodic novel by the mutiple-awardwinning author of The Outlander Zusammenfassung A funny, haunting portrait of an offbeat family in this episodic novel by the mutiple-awardwinning author of The Outlander

'Striking, thoughtful, full of unexpected twists, The Outlander is that rare delight: a novel that is beautifully written yet as gripping as any airport page-turner ... there are echoes of Cormac McCarthy. Hugely enjoyable ... A rattling good yarn'

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Gil Adamson has written two acclaimed books of poetry, Primitive and Ashland, and her work has also been widely published in magazines and literary journals. Her novel, The Outlander, won the International Association of Crime Writers' Dashiell Hammett Prize and the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Prize. It has also been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She lives with writer Kevin Connolly in Toronto.

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Presents the life and times of siblings Hazel and Andrew, who are born into a family of modern-day eccentrics. Through Hazel's eyes, readers can observe her family as they attend the funeral on Christmas Day - despite none of them knowing the deceased - and come up with crazy inventions such as solar powered curtains. From the author of )The Outlander(, which sold 25,000 copies.