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Jane Doucet

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Jane Doucet is a Canadian journalist whose articles have appeared in myriad national magazines, including Chatelaine and Canadian Living. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Canada's East Coast with her husband.

In 2017, Jane self-published her debut novel, The Pregnant Pause, about a married woman who is turning 37 and trying to decide whether or not to have a baby. In 2018, The Pregnant Pause was shortlisted for a Whistler Independent Book Award.

In 2021, Vagrant Press, the fiction imprint of Nimbus Publishing, released Jane's second novel, Fishnets & Fantasies, about a married couple in their late 50s who open a sex shop in tiny, tourist-friendly Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (population 2,300).

In spring 2023, Vagrant Press re-released The P
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Happy International Women's Day!

Hello Dear Readers,

Today is International Women's Day. I was thrilled when Halifax Public Libraries put my novel The Pregnant Pause in their Women's Day display at Halifax Central Library two years ago, surrounded by other notable women authors.

In 1980, only one woman, Danielle Steele, was among the 11 top authors by decade on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2010, there were three women am Read more of this blog post »
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Fishnets & Fantasies: A Novel

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The Pregnant Pause

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Lost & Found in Lunenburg

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Blood Typed by Jane Doucet
"I was lucky enough to receive a ARC in exchange for an honest review. I love this novel so much! It's a witty and captivating contemporary mystery set in Nova Scotia's writer community. It's the first in Jane's Val Jenkins cozy mystery series, and I " Read more of this review »
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Where the Heart Meets the Sea by Kimbra Drake
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A little romance, a little mystery, a little island community in Norway—all are enticing elements in Where the Heart Meets the Sea, Kimbra Drake’s delightful novel.
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"I really enjoyed this book. Can’t wait to read her next one."
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Dancing with the Marigolds by Trish Joudrey
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If you loved Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, you'll love Dancing with the Marigolds. I read it over the course of two days and never tired of Trish's account of her post-divorce, 12-year journey of self-discovery in India that began at the age of ...more
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“Spring in Nova Scotia could be as unpredictable as a menopausal woman's moods: warm and calm one day, cold and cutting the next.”
Jane Doucet, Lost & Found in Lunenburg

“Shortly before Rose Ainsworth's thirty-seventh birthday everything went to shit.”
Jane Doucet, The Pregnant Pause

“The first time Mary Lohnes and Lorne Pictou tried to have sex it was a disaster. To be fair, the tick that Lorne plucked with tweezers from between Mary's ample breasts was mostly to blame.”
Jane Doucet, Fishnets & Fantasies: A Novel

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