David Adams Richards' most recent novel, Mercy Among the Children, won the 2000 Giller Prize and was nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award. His novel The Bay of Love and Sorrows, published in 1998, has been made into a feature film.
A superlative new novel by 'the greatest Canadian writer alive' * Vancouver Sun * Psychologically acute * Guardian * David Adams Richards' characters achieve redemption through affliction, but the reader does not feel afflicted -- Wayne Johnston