FIRST NEW BARBARA GOWDY IN A DECADE

IFOA and HarperCollins Canada invite you to the release of Little Sister, the first novel in a decade from award-winning author Barbara Gowdy as part of the Toronto Lit Up book launch series. In Little Sister, Rose begins having vivid dreams about inhabiting another woman's life. But are they dreams, or is she really beginning to inhabit the body of another woman? Join us at Boxcar Social at Harbourfront Centre for Little Sister, a fictional tour de force exploring the limits of the human mind.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Barbara Gowdy is the author of seven books, including Helpless, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look on Love, and Falling Angels, all of which have been met with widespread international acclaim and critical praise. She has been a finalist three times for the Governor General’s Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and twice for the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 1996, she received the Marian Engel Award and in 2008 the Trillium Book Award. A Member of the Order of Canada and a Guggenheim Fellow, Barbara Gowdy lives in Toronto.