Martha Baillie

WINNER OF THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION The Globe and Mail: Books to Read in Fall 2023 The Globe and Mail Best 100 Books of 2023 CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2023 Martha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's passing, her father's life, and her sister's suicide is an exploration of how the body, the...

The three protagonists in this memoir are dead: a mother, a father, and a sister. A bookish and artistic family living in a beautiful old house in a pleasant part of Toronto. Two girls growing up in the 60s and 70s. All seems well until one of them begins to manifest signs of distress, leading, eventually, to a diagnosis of...