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Gail Anderson-Dargatz

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Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller

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Watch for Gail's new novel The Atlas Keeper out in August 2026.

GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ’s first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Spawning Grounds was nominated for the Sunburst Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award and short-listed for the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for Fiction. Her thriller The Almost Wife, a national bestseller in 2021, was followed by The Almost Widow in 2023.

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Average rating: 3.62 · 16,811 ratings · 1,379 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Cure for Death by Lightning 3.70 avg rating — 6,914 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Recipe for Bees 3.68 avg rating — 4,350 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Almost Wife 3.36 avg rating — 1,826 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Almost Widow: A Novel 3.57 avg rating — 906 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Turtle Valley 3.56 avg rating — 728 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spawning Grounds 3.70 avg rating — 616 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Rhinestone Button 3.44 avg rating — 428 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Scratch 3.22 avg rating — 297 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Miss Hereford stories 3.62 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Search and Rescue 3.25 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Atlas Keeper

I'm thrilled to announce my upcoming book The Atlas Keeper: A Novel which will be released by HarperCollins Canada August 25, 2026.

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“Housework would never be her crowning achievement, the life's work for which she'd be known.”
― Gail Anderson-Dargatz, A Recipe for Bees

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“She knew nothing about him, other than what he revealed of himself through his garden.”
― Gail Anderson-Dargatz, A Recipe for Bees

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“You hire our boys because they don't know how to ask for what they're worth. You treat them as if they were slaves.”
― Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Cure for Death by Lightning

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