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Barbara Gowdy

Barbara Gowdy is an award-winning author whose five previous books, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look On Love and Falling Angels, have appeared on bestseller lists throughout the world. The recipient of the Marian Engel Award in 1996, she has been a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and a repeat finalist for the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. She lives in Toronto.

Books by Barbara Gowdy

Little Sister

Ninety-Three Million Miles Away

Flesh Of My Flesh

We So Seldom Look On Love

The Two-Headed Man

Lizards

Sylvie

Presbyterian Crosswalk

Body And Soul

Mister Sandman

Helpless

Falling Angels

The Romantic

Falling Angels Movie Tie In