Merilyn Simonds

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Merilyn Simonds is the author of 18 books, including the novel The Holding, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and the Canadian classic nonfiction novel, The Convict Lover, a finalist for the Governor General's Award. In 2017, Project Bookmark Canada unveiled a plaque to honour the place of The Convict Lover in Canada’s literary landscape.

Simonds’ short fiction is anthologized internationally and her books are published in the UK, Europe, Asia, Canada, and the United States. In 2012 she published The Paradise Project, a collection of flash fiction hand-printed on an antique press with endpapers made from plants in her garden. The experience of producing the collection in both a digital and book-arts edition is the subject of Gut
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Just Because You Don’t See Them—Spring LitBits 2022

The white-faced ibises have disappeared. I used to climb to the rooftop terrace while the sun was splashing colour up into the dawn and watch the dark, graceful arcs of birds float across the sunrise, west to east. In the evening, my husband and I would position ourselves at our favourite restaurant at precisely 6:40 […]

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Woman, Watching: Louise de ...

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The Convict Lover

3.50 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions
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Refuge

3.67 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
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The Holding

3.49 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions
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Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: A ...

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The Lion in the Room Next Door

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A New Leaf: Growing with My...

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Night: A Literary Companion

3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Miss You Already: A Short S...

3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015
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Gardens: A Literary Companion

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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“My books are my brain and my heart made visible.”
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“No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.”
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