Colin McAdam's debut novel, Some Great Thing, won the Amazon First Novel Award in Canada and was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second novel, Fall, was short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was awarded the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize. He has written for Harper's and lives in Toronto.
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In a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-old Oliver and his father, a story-loving writer. Haunted by the ghost of his alcoholic mother, Oliver finds comfort in his father's impromptu tales: the Black Dove, an elusive flo... SEE MORE