In This Faulty Machine

Kathy Page is the  author of eight novels, including The Story of My Face, short-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002; Alphabet, finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction,  and The Find,  a ReLit award finalist.  Her most recent novel, Dear Evelyn, won the 2018 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Prize, and won the 2019 City of Victoria Book  Prize. Her short fiction collections Paradise & Elsewhere and The Two of Us, were long-listed for the Giller Prize.

Now  facing the challenge of living with Parkinson’s disease her interest in   fictional situations has been  replaced by a desire to explore and convey the physical realities, philosophical perplexities and many ironies of her new situation—though she writes as ever  with a  novelist’s eye, ear and voice, and with the same deep and compassionate sense of character that distinguishes her previous work. Her eagerly anticipated  memoir, In This Faulty Machine,  forthcoming with Penguin Canada in September 2025, is now available for pre-order  in bookstores or using the form at the end of this information: 

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/788772/in-this-faulty-machine-by-kathy-page/9781037800894

For general enquiries please use the contact form. For rights  information please contact literary agent: John Pearce, Westwood Creative. 

About for an overview of Kathy Page’s writing.

Author Bio basic biographical information 

readers’ questions about her books and about writing.

Notes & Queries:  the pleasures, pains and ironies  of  the writer’s life.   Information about  manuscript consultancy with Kathy Page,  and  writing workshops and courses, updated periodically.

 Feedback, suggestions and enquiries  are welcome.