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Kathy Page is the author of six novels, including The Story of My Face, which was short listed for the Orange Prize in 2002, and Alphabet, which was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award for fiction in 2005. Complex characters and compelling narrative are Page's trademarks, as is suspense, both psychological and existential. 'One of the most compelling, unsettling novels I've read in ages,' Sara Waters wrote in the Independent On Sunday, choosing The Story of My Face as one of her Books of the Year, 'which should appeal to fans of classy thrillers and literary fiction alike.' Alphabet has been described as 'Dark, disturbing and delicious' (January Magazine) and Guardian columnist Erwin James called it: '...a wonderful book, peculiar, intense, revealing, challenging, exhausting - and above all, riveting.' While Page's work is sometimes dark, it is also profoundly optimistic. Her earlier novel, Frankie Styne & the Silver Man, reprinted 2008, shows her playing with a suspense narrative for the first time, and sets up some of the questions about the nature of identity which have continued to animate her work: What makes a person who s/he is? How much change is possible? This novel's unexpected ending signals a transition from the starker work that preceded it. 'I read on, captivated and creeped-out,' Caroline Adderson writes of Frankie Styne, 'but this being Kathy Page, I always trusted I was heading away from a nightmare, towards a happier place.' Page has also written short fiction, collected in the recently reprinted As in Music, and script for radio, TV and film. Her non-fiction has appeared in newspapers, magazines and anthologies, for example, Five Times, her account of an emergency caesarian, in Great Expectations. Born in the UK, Page is an accomplished workshop facilitator who has taught writing in universities and other institutions in the UK, Finland, Estonia - and now in Canada, where she has lived with her husband and two children since 2001. The site includes reader's guides for book groups, FAQs and notebook pages.
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The Story of My Face now in development with True West Films.
Reprinted by Phoenix Books, June 2008
4-12 March, 2010. Writer in Residence at Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, UK.  |
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