Annabel

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize - this is a moving novel about a young hermaphrodite growing up in the 1960s.

An uplifting exploration of love, parenthood, and all that we become

Remarkable... at once deeply moving and a powerful rallying cry

[A] powerful and important debut...about friendship, parental love and its limitations

This haunting, powerful story is about much more than the problems of being a hermaphrodite...This is a remarkable first novel, an accomplished debut by an exciting new voice with a confident, mature style

Kathleen Winter has the steadfast clarity and quietly assured talent to make this difficult subject her own...Winter has a strikingly mellifluous voice, and she has created a potent story exploring gender categorization and humanity

As an examination of a relationship between a child and his parents, this is a moving tale, told with precision and care. As a debut, it is almost faultless

Winter clearly loves all her characters, even the hopelessly misguided men, and she lavishes compassion and metaphor on them.

It's loneliness, not gender, that lies at the heart of Winter's novel - a confident, serious debut

This is an astute examination of ordinary people confronting extraordinary dilemmas

It is the powerful sense of place that is the most successful element

Beautifully paced, sometimes shocking and never prurient

A powerful story...compelling and sensitively written

A heartbreaking tale ...Winter's novel elegantly allows for the awkward ambiguities of the situation

Annabel is a beautiful book, brimming with heart and uncommon wisdom. Life is ambiguity and flux and mystery, and Kathleen Winter has written a gorgeous, searing love-letter to the possibilities that lie just below the surface of the everyday.

The perfect childs' voice... I read Annabel in two days thus breaking all my rules about taking time with my reading and having 'thinking rests', and I can't tell you how much this book has filled my thoughts since... just occasionally I think I have to beg and grovel and say 'pleeeeeeeeeeeease don't miss Annabel' . It will be in my top reads of 2011 no matter how many good books follow...I am very much hoping to see this on tomorrow's Orange Prize short list

A mesmerising combination of crisp language, deep empathy for her well-wrought characters, and a world-savvy wisdom. Annabel is an unforgettable novel

The writing was very crisp and precise, with many beautiful descriptions

Kathleen Winter isn't afraid to tackle a tough subject head on. Annabel is an extraordinary novel

Winter writes beautifully, and the sensational side of the story is handled elegantly

Funny and tender, charming and moving...a genuine pleasure to read

Kathleen Winter is the author of the international bestseller, Annabel, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Boundless has already been shortlisted for the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize - the richest non-fiction prize in Canada. A long-time resident of St John's, Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal.

In 1968, in a remote part of Canada, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people share the secret - the baby's parents and a trusted neighbour. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to go through surgery and raise the child as a boy named Wayne. 
 
But as Wayne grows up within the hyper-male hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self - a girl he thinks of as 'Annabel' - is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life. As Wayne approaches adulthood, and its emotional and physical demands, the woman inside him begins to cry out. The changes that follow are momentous not just for him, but for the three adults that have guarded his secret. 
 
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

Kathleen Winter

Adventures in the Northwest Passage

In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the legendary Northwest Passage. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along this arctic passage, Winter witnesses the new mathematics of the melting North – where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species; where the earth is on the cusp of yielding so much buried treasure that five nations stand poised to claim sovereignty of the land; and where the local Inuit population struggles to navigate the tension between taking their part in the new global economy and defending their traditional way of life. In breathtaking prose charged with vivid descriptions of the land and its people, Kathleen Winter’s Boundless is a haunting and powerful story: a homage to the ever-evolving and magnetic power of the North.

Kathleen Winter

Boundless

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