2010 Re-release Reader’s Guide Edition of Lynn Coady’s Strange Heaven

- A GG finalist and Winner of the Atlantic Bookseller’s Chocie Award; a winner of the Dartmouth Book Award and a finalist for the Thomas Head Raddall Award.

- Special features include an afterword by Marina Endicott, a great interview with Lynn Coady, and more.

A work of rare vivacity. Strange Heaven is bursting with dark humour and its well-placed opposite. This re-release of Lynn Coady’s critically acclaimed debut novel is proof positive she is a genuine, assured, compelling voice, and has been from the start. It has been said, written, taught, and seldom denied that to capture a reader requires making them buy and care for your characters, and Coady is particularly gifted in this regard. If characters could get any more real or fun to read about, then Lynn Coady would make all the real-life  people you know seem dull and unconvincing. This book is funny, sad, compassionate, ridiculous, believable, authentic, brash, mature, gripping, immature: and a dozen other adjectives to assure you it is worth a read. If you missed Coady’s lively debut the first time, don’t make the same mistake twice.

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