Mirror, Mirror

After undergoing a cosmetic treatment to recover her lost youth, a middle-aged woman finds herself reconnected to her alienated daughter a young woman still searching for her own path in life in an unexpected and incredible way. A modern-day fable from two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Pauline Holdstock.

"Holdstock's writing manages to be both heartbreakingly poetic and densely detailed sad passages, ghostlike recollections, written almost from the vantage point of the present, establish the book as a great work of fiction."
The Globe and Mail on Into the Heart of the Country, longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize

"Holdstock, with a few deft strokes, pulls the reader into the tumultuous life of an alluring rabble of characters: painters, sculptors, patrons, fools, and slaves . . . In Beyond Measure, she proves herself a master of pacing. Her lively, macabre plot trips lightly along in spite of its dark elements."
The Globe and Mail on Beyond Measure, finalist for the 2004 Giller Prize and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize

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