REVIEW QUOTES

"Carol Shields has explored the mysteries of life with abandon, taking unusual risks along the way. The Stone Diaries reminds us again why literature matters." —The New York Times Book Review

"...Shields's storytelling is at its most ambitious and compelling." —The Toronto Star

"A beautiful, darkly ironic novel of misunderstanding and missed opportunites." —Esquire

“A wise and unusual novel that makes the ordinary extraordinary...Shields reveals the mysteries of love, culture and spirituality shimmering beneath the surface of a quiet woman’s life.” — Elle

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Carol Shields has won many national and international awards for her novels and short stories. Larry’s Party won the Orange Prize and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. The Stone Diaries won the Pulitzer Prize, the Governor General’s Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Ms. Shields has also written eleven other novels and short story collections, three books of poetry, numerous plays and a biography of Jane Austen. She is also co-editor, with Marjorie Anderson, of Dropped Threads: What We Aren’t Told. Her forthcoming new novel, Unless, reawakens the voice of Reta Winters, from her story “The Scarf,” included in Dressing Up for the Carnival. Carol Shields lives in Victoria, BC.

AWARDS

Winner 1994 - National Book Critics Circle Awards
Nominee - International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Nominee - Booker Prize
Nominee - Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year - Adult
Nominee - New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner 1993 - Governor General's Literary Award
Winner 1995 - Pulitzer Prize