Gail Anderson-Dargatz  

Gail's Novels

National Bestseller

 
"Gail Anderson-Dargatz writes lovely novels about unlovely people: unlovely people who grow beautiful under her compassionate, masterful, sly authorial gaze." 
 -Quill and Quire, October 2002
 

"The writing is funny and sharp, with dark notes struck beneath the humour, but overriding it all is Anderson-Dargatz's deep understanding of rural people and communities and her compulsive, infectious love for them." 
 -Montreal Gazette
 

"A Rhinestone Button takes a milieu most of us would find peculiar and strange, and yet is able to render it fully and lovingly, as though it held the most normal everyday existence one could have...Anderson-Dargatz's prose is cosy, comfortable and finely crafted. She's funny and insightful." 
 -Toronto Star, October 2002.
 

"Few contemporary Canadian novelists can match (Gail Anderson-Dargatz's) ability to capture those moments of acutely observed rural life that conjure mood and a way of life." 
 -The Globe and Mail
 

"Anderson-Dargatz has done what Margaret Laurence and Sinclair Ross have done for small-town Manitoba and Saskatchewan in her depiction of the spiritual, social and physical trials of rural Alberta life...A two-time Giller Prize finalist for The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees, Anderson-Dargatz engages us again with the exquisitely detailed rural imagery and vivid characterization we have come to expect." 
 -Edmonton Journal

 

Gail's Hi-Lo Books

About Gail

Gail's novels have been national and international bestsellers and two have been short-listed for the Giller Prize, among other awards. She works with writers from around the world on her online teaching forums.