Caroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister, Ellen in Pieces, The Sky Is Falling, Sitting Practice, and A History of Forgetting), three collections of short stories (A Way to Be Happy, Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings), as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes, three CBC Literary Awards, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.

Praise for Caroline Adderson“All of Adderson’s characters are rounded and all have utility, not simply as plot devices but as part of a striving, suffering whole.”—New York Times Book Review“Caroline Adderson treats the domestic drama with elegance and wit, and what she has to say about her characters and their circumstances is often profound.”—Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion“Adderson excels at portraying life in all its glorious, devastating, unpredictable messiness.”—Toronto Star“Adderson achieves a remarkable effect with her prose. Its clarity is so overwhelming that it becomes intoxicating.”—Globe and Mail“A prose style as elegant and controlled as a swallow dive . . . No one could ever accuse Adderson of timidity when it comes to subject.”—The Independent“Arresting . . . [Adderson] writes with a rare understanding of human frailty.”—The Times (London)