Curiosities
A Novel
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE • A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024 • One of CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of 2024
"Pure delight." —Ann-Marie MacDonald
"Dazzling ... A riot of cerebral invention." —Toronto Star
This sparkling, genre-bending novel opens with amateur historian Anne, who has a passion for research into the murkier corners of England in the 1600s. In an archive, Anne has stumbled across an obscure memoir, one that hints at an intricate tapestry of secret lives and loves.
The full story eventually weaves together five manuscripts, each a different thread in the same strange tale: The Plague descends upon a village, and two children, Joan and Thomasina, are the…