Four new guests of a retirement home, three women and one man, form a group dedicated to small acts of pleasurable rebellion, until one of them asks a question for which the others are unprepared.
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Isla is 49 and happy in her second marriage. Her career is thriving but life changes drastically when her son and his friend devise a plan to escape their small town life.
Seniors settle into a retirement facility; four of them become their own little group dedicated to small acts of pleasurable rebellion. In their pasts they've had a few connections, both faint and bold, with each other, and Ruth hopes to make use of them soon, for a challenging a...
From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Luck and the Man Booker Prize nominated Critical InjuriesWhen Lila boards a flight to London for her first major trip with her married lover Tom, it's with anticipation of, finally, a couple of free-spirited weeks away from ...
From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Luck comes the Man Booker Prize nominated Critical InjuriesHow could a celebratory trip to the ice cream store with her husband Lyle turn out so badly? Isla, long divorced from her criminal first husband, is shot by a confus...
The Idyll Inn, the setting for Joan Barfoot's brilliant eleventh novel, Exit Lines , is a pastel-hued care facility designed for seniors "with healthy incomes but varying hopes, despairs, abilities and deformities." In scathing detail, Barfoot describes the Idyll Inn's plastic p...
Nora, an artist, finds herself suddenly widowed and in the days following her husband's death, she, with the help of her friends Beth and Sophie, must figure out what comes next.