No Great Mischief

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 262, [4]. Grey cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; black endpapers. Jacket design by Julian Humphries.

Signed by Author to title page.

Winner of the 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award and the Canadian Booksellers' Book of the Year. Thirteen years in the writing, this is the acclaimed short story writer's only novel. A work of immense lyrical and narrative scope recounting a family's flight to Cape Breton following the Highland clearances in 1770s Scotland to parallels with their descendants in 1980s Nova Scotia. "A gorgeously worded... novel by an acknowledged master of the short story." –San Francisco Chronicle