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Gail Anderson-Dargatz

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Literature & Fiction, Children's, Thriller

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Watch for Gail's new novel, The Almost Widow, a thriller, released May 2023.

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 was a national bestseller in 2021, and her most recent novel, The Almost Widow, is out in Ma ...more

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Average rating: 3.63 · 14,131 ratings · 1,031 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Cure for Death by Lightning 3.70 avg rating — 6,531 ratings — published 1996 — 28 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 3.69 avg rating — 4,092 ratings — published 1998 — 28 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 3.34 avg rating — 1,210 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Turtle Valley 3.56 avg rating — 659 ratings — published 2007 — 14 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 — 556 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	A Rhinestone Button 3.45 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 2002 — 9 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 3.16 avg rating — 191 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 — 94 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 3.20 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	No Return Address 3.57 avg rating — 53 ratings — 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

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The Almost Widow

Well, would you look at that! The Almost Widow has been nominated as one of Kobo's best thrillers of May!

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Gail and 1 other person liked Marshamariella's review of The Almost Widow: "It was a good read some parts for me was a slow burn. I liked the ‘almost widow’ perseverance in not giving up the search for her husband."
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Gail made a comment on Shannon’s review of The Almost Widow: A Novel " Thanks so much for the review! "
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Gail and 4 other people liked Shannon's review of The Almost Widow: A Novel: "I really enjoyed this pulse-pounding thriller that sees a wife determined to find her missing husband even when the search and rescue teams have given him up for dead. The Canadian bush setting was great in this book, I liked learning more about that" Read more of this review »
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Gail liked Jaz's review of The Almost Widow: "Taut, fast-paced thriller set in the BC wilderness. A perfect summer cottage read!"
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Gail made a comment on Enid Wray’s review of The Almost Widow " Wow! Thanks so much Enid! You made my day. I'll still write literary, but the thriller structure is so fun to write. I'm tickled you found it fun to r ...more "
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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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