Lori Lansens
Lori Lansens is the author of two bestselling novels, Rush Home Road and The Girls, which was a Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2006 (and sold over 300,000 copies in the UK) and a finalist for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, Lori Lansens now makes her home in California.
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The Wife's Tale
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39839-0 (0-307-39839-0)
April 27, 2010 | $21.00
A brilliant new novel — deeply humane and entirely convincing — from Lori Lansens, author of two previous bestsellers and a writer who can be counted on to deliver an amazing story and characters to fall in love with.
In Lori Lansens’ Leaford, Ontario — home of Rose and Ruby Darlen, the...
Written by Lori Lansens
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39839-0 (0-307-39839-0)
April 27, 2010 | $21.00
A brilliant new novel — deeply humane and entirely convincing — from Lori Lansens, author of two previous bestsellers and a writer who can be counted on to deliver an amazing story and characters to fall in love with.
In Lori Lansens’ Leaford, Ontario — home of Rose and Ruby Darlen, the...
The Wife's Tale
eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37304-5 (0-307-37304-5)
August 18, 2009 | $29.95
A brilliant new novel — deeply humane and entirely convincing — from Lori Lansens, author of two previous bestsellers and a writer who can be counted on to deliver an amazing story and characters to fall in love with.
In Lori Lansens’ Leaford, Ontario — home of Rose and Ruby Darlen, the...
Written by Lori Lansens
eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37304-5 (0-307-37304-5)
August 18, 2009 | $29.95
A brilliant new novel — deeply humane and entirely convincing — from Lori Lansens, author of two previous bestsellers and a writer who can be counted on to deliver an amazing story and characters to fall in love with.
In Lori Lansens’ Leaford, Ontario — home of Rose and Ruby Darlen, the...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
The Wife's Tale
Hardcover | 384 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39838-3 (0-307-39838-2)
August 18, 2009 | $29.95
A brilliant new novel — deeply humane and entirely convincing — from Lori Lansens, author of two previous bestsellers and a writer who can be counted on to deliver an amazing story and characters to fall in love with.
In Lori Lansens’ Leaford, Ontario — home of Rose and Ruby Darlen, the...
Written by Lori Lansens
Hardcover | 384 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39838-3 (0-307-39838-2)
August 18, 2009 | $29.95
A brilliant new novel — deeply humane and entirely convincing — from Lori Lansens, author of two previous bestsellers and a writer who can be counted on to deliver an amazing story and characters to fall in love with.
In Lori Lansens’ Leaford, Ontario — home of Rose and Ruby Darlen, the...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Girls
eBook | 464 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-0-307-37154-6 (0-307-37154-9)
February 24, 2009 | $12.99
In Lori Lansens’ astonishing second novel, readers come to know and love two of the most remarkable characters in Canadian fiction. Rose and Ruby are twenty-nine-year-old conjoined twins. Born during a tornado to a shocked teenaged mother in the hospital at Leaford, Ontario, they are raised by the nurse who helped...
Written by Lori Lansens
eBook | 464 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-0-307-37154-6 (0-307-37154-9)
February 24, 2009 | $12.99
In Lori Lansens’ astonishing second novel, readers come to know and love two of the most remarkable characters in Canadian fiction. Rose and Ruby are twenty-nine-year-old conjoined twins. Born during a tornado to a shocked teenaged mother in the hospital at Leaford, Ontario, they are raised by the nurse who helped...
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
Rush Home Road
eBook | 576 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37128-7 (0-307-37128-X)
February 24, 2009 | $21.00
Lori Lansens became one of Canada’s most sought after writers more than a year before her internationally heralded first book, Rush Home Road, would see publication in April 2002. So immediately and passionately was her novel embraced that it was already front-page arts news back in April 2001. Knopf Canada was...
Written by Lori Lansens
eBook | 576 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37128-7 (0-307-37128-X)
February 24, 2009 | $21.00
Lori Lansens became one of Canada’s most sought after writers more than a year before her internationally heralded first book, Rush Home Road, would see publication in April 2002. So immediately and passionately was her novel embraced that it was already front-page arts news back in April 2001. Knopf Canada was...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Girls
Paperback | 464 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-1-4000-2539-8 (1-4000-2539-7)
December 26, 2007 | $12.99
In Lori Lansens’ astonishing second novel, readers come to know and love two of the most remarkable characters in Canadian fiction. Rose and Ruby are twenty-nine-year-old conjoined twins. Born during a tornado to a shocked teenaged mother in the hospital at Leaford, Ontario, they are raised by the nurse who helped...
Written by Lori Lansens
Paperback | 464 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-1-4000-2539-8 (1-4000-2539-7)
December 26, 2007 | $12.99
In Lori Lansens’ astonishing second novel, readers come to know and love two of the most remarkable characters in Canadian fiction. Rose and Ruby are twenty-nine-year-old conjoined twins. Born during a tornado to a shocked teenaged mother in the hospital at Leaford, Ontario, they are raised by the nurse who helped...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Girls
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97796-7 (0-676-97796-0)
May 9, 2006 | $21.00
“We’ve been called many things: freaks, horrors, monsters, devils, witches, retards, wonders, marvels. To most, we’re a curiosity. In small-town Leaford, where we live and work, we’re just ‘The Girls.’”
Rose and Ruby Darlen are closer than most twin sisters. Indeed, they have spent their twenty-nine years on earth joined at the...
Written by Lori Lansens
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97796-7 (0-676-97796-0)
May 9, 2006 | $21.00
“We’ve been called many things: freaks, horrors, monsters, devils, witches, retards, wonders, marvels. To most, we’re a curiosity. In small-town Leaford, where we live and work, we’re just ‘The Girls.’”
Rose and Ruby Darlen are closer than most twin sisters. Indeed, they have spent their twenty-nine years on earth joined at the...
Rush Home Road
Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97451-5 (0-676-97451-1)
January 21, 2003 | $21.00
A lonely 70-year-old woman takes in an abandoned girl in this heart-wrenching tale of love and loss set in the black communities of southwestern Ontario.
Rush Home Road, a dramatic début novel by an adept storyteller, was compared to John Steinbeck and Alice Munro and is poised to become beloved by...
Written by Lori Lansens
Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97451-5 (0-676-97451-1)
January 21, 2003 | $21.00
A lonely 70-year-old woman takes in an abandoned girl in this heart-wrenching tale of love and loss set in the black communities of southwestern Ontario.
Rush Home Road, a dramatic début novel by an adept storyteller, was compared to John Steinbeck and Alice Munro and is poised to become beloved by...
Also available as an
eBook.









