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Gail's novels The Cure for Death by Lighting and A Recipe for Bees were international bestsellers, and were both finalists for the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada. The Cure for Death by Lightning won the UK’s Betty Trask Prize among other awards. A Rhinestone Button was a national bestseller in Canada and Gail's first book, The Miss Hereford Stories, was short-listed for the Leacock Award for humour. Turtle Valley, just out in trade paperback, is a Canadian bestseller.

Gail teaches fiction and novel in the creative writing optional-residency MFA program at the University of British Columbia, and divides her time between Manitoulin Island and the Shuswap-Thompson region, the landscape found in so much of her writing.

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Giller prize winner Dr. Vincent Lam talks about just how much "letting go" is involved in writing a novel in his guest blog on my website http://www.gailanderson-dargatz.ca.

Here’s a sample from Vincent’s blog:

“How to Ditch A Thousand Pages of Writing

First off, decide to write a novel.

If your goal is to jettison approximately a thousand – give or take a few hundred – pages of your own written wo... read more »
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The Cure For Death By Light...
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 1,245 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions
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A Recipe for Bees
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 832 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions
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Turtle Valley
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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A Rhinestone Button
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
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The Miss Hereford Stories
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1994
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The Stalker
1.67 of 5 stars 1.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010
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Turtle Valley (Literature & Fiction)
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Description: latest novel from Gail Anderson-Dargatz

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“Housework would never be her crowning achievement, the life's work for which she'd be known.”
Gail Anderson-Dargatz, A Recipe for Bees

“She knew nothing about him, other than what he revealed of himself through his garden.”
Gail Anderson-Dargatz, A Recipe for Bees

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