HELLGOING

Shortlisted for the Roger's Writers Trust Fiction Prize 2013
Awarded with the Giller Prize 2013

With astonishing range and depth, celebrated writer Lynn Coady gives us eight unforgettable stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last. A young nun charged with talking
an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper, and stranger, shapes as the years progress. A bride-to-be with a penchant for nocturnal bondage can't seem to stop bashing herself up in the light of day. Equally adept at capturing the foibles and obsessions of men and of women, compassionate in her
humour yet never missing an opportunity to make her characters squirm, fascinated as much by faithlessness as by faith, Hellgoing is the follow-up to
the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated novel The Antagonist, and confirms Coady as one of Canada's brightest literary stars.