THAT'S MY BABY

The unforgettable new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Tell and Deafening.

At the end of Frances Itani's Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Tell, a baby is adopted by a young couple who are coming to terms with the traumatic effects of the Great War. Eighteen years on, the baby, Hanora, now a young woman, is told about her adoption.
As the Second World War looms, Hanora is determined to uncover the mysteries of her identity. This quest will take her to New York and across the ocean with her cousin, Billie, and headlong into the tumult of Europe. Amid wartime tensions, the great dance halls of the era beckon, and a career as a journalist becomes possible, even as her great love, Tobe, enlists in the Infantry.
But Hanora will not let the past lie, even though, decades later, the truth remains beyond her grasp. Billie, whose memory is fading as she slips into dementia, provides some clues, but it isn't until Hanora discovers a set of diaries written by the late artist Mariah Bindle and what they reveal about her family that she can begin to piece together her history and her own place in the world.
In That's My Baby, Frances Itani has created a deeply resonant novel of memory, identity and belonging, set against a landscape of personal loss and world events.

FRANCES ITANI has written sixteen books. Her novels include Tell, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem, chosen by The Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles for 2012; Remembering the Bones, published internationally and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Award; and the #1 bestseller Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers' Award, was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, was chosen for CBC's Canada Reads, and was published in seventeen territories. A member of the Order of Canada and three-time winner of the CBC Literary Award, Itani lives in Ottawa.