Mary Novik

Called "a magnificent novel of seventeenth-century London" by The Globe and Mail, Mary Novik's debut novel Conceit was warmly received by book clubs and chosen as a Book of the Year by both Quill & Quire and The Globe and Mail. It was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller and won The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Canada Reads named Conceit one of the Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade.

Mary Novik was raised in a large family in Victoria, British Columbia, and has been passionate about books and travel all her life. Mary was inspired to write Conceit when she was visiting St. Paul's Cathedral in London and discovered that John Donne's effigy was the only monument that survived…