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Olivia Lichtenstein - Mrs. Zhivago of Queen's Park

(Orion)                
A hilarious modern-day moral fable: a successful London psychotherapist is tempted into infidelity by a Pushkin-quoting Russian. Littered with well-drawn, entertaining supporting characters, this first novel delivers great storytelling and laugh-out loud wit.

Rosie Thomas - Iris and Ruby

(McArthur & Company)

One of England's favourite writers is back with a richly textured story of love, loss and the distance between three generations of one family.

Catherine DeVrye - Serendipity Road

(McArthur & Company)

By the time she reached twenty-one, the Canadian-born author had been orphaned twice.  After a lifetime of achievement as an athlete, lecturer and author, Ms. DeVrye experiences the most surprising adventure of all—the journey back home to find her birth parents.

Domenica DeRosa -Villa Serena

(Headline)

Emily Robertson is living the Italian dream: the lovingly restored home, the three beautiful children and the perfect job writing about it in a weekly newspaper column. When her husband unceremoniously dumps her, her Tuscan paradise is in tatters. But as Emily is about to discover, there's a lot more to Italy than the dolce vita ...