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Christine Higdon

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Christine’s latest novel, Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue has been nominated for the 2025 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award!

The novel is immersed in the complex political and social realities of the 1920s and, not so ironically, of the 2020s: love, sex, desire, police corruption, abortion, addiction, and women wanting more. Much more.

Elegant and witty, with a compelling cast of characters, this novel is a tender account of love that cannot be acknowledged, of loss and regret, risk and defiance, abiding friendship, and the powerful bonds of chosen family.

The Very Marrow of Our Bones won the 2018 Foreword INDIES Editor’s Choice Prize–Fiction. Christine has been published in journals and has won a National Magazine Award and been long-lis Christine’s latest novel, Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue has been nominated for the 2025 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award!

The novel is immersed in the complex political and social realities of the 1920s and, not so ironically, of the 2020s: love, sex, desire, police corruption, abortion, addiction, and women wanting more. Much more.

Elegant and witty, with a compelling cast of characters, this novel is a tender account of love that cannot be acknowledged, of loss and regret, risk and defiance, abiding friendship, and the powerful bonds of chosen family.

The Very Marrow of Our Bones won the 2018 Foreword INDIES Editor’s Choice Prize–Fiction. Christine has been published in journals and has won a National Magazine Award and been long-listed and shortlisted for several literary prizes. Daughter of a Newfoundlander and a British Columbian, she was born in rural BC, and now makes her home in Mimico, Ontario, where, when she is not working, editing, reading, or writing, she hooks rugs and worries about the bees.
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• Quill & Quire
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For The Very Marrow of Our Bones
• Foreword INDIES Editor's Choice Prize - Fiction 2018
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• Toronto Star review
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• Kirkus review
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• Richard Lemm review: Lulu the Fiddler from Fraser Arm, B.C
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• Writer's Trust Best Books to Brighten Winter Nights
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• Open Book interview
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• 49th Shelf: 2018 Books of the Year: Fiction
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• Literary Hoarders: 2018 Year End in Review
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• Literary Hoarders: Top 10 CanLit in 2018
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• A Novel Spot Bookshop @NovelSpotBooks: Chris's Top 5 Reads of 2018
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• A Novel Spot Bookshop @NovelSpotBooks: Susan's Top 5 Reads of 2018
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• Canadian Living The Best Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List
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• Books That Take You on a Journey 49th Shelf
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Christine Higdon’s books

Average rating: 4.1 · 1,708 ratings · 289 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Very Marrow of Our Bones 4.15 avg rating — 1,168 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 540 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly (Issue 21: Short Stories) by Sheila Block (Editor), Christine Higdon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Makeda Silvera (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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