Pauline Holdstock

Pauline Holdstock’s novel Beyond Measure was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Caribbean and Canada region) and the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, and it won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Holdstock’s other novels include The Blackbird’s Song, which was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, The Turning and The Burial Ground. She lives on Vancouver Island. Her new novel is Into the Heart of the Country.