Audrey Thomas, three-time recipient of the Ethel Wilson Prize, has a new historical novel, Isobel Gunn (Penguin $29.99), based on a young Orkney woman who disguised herself as a man to work in Rupert's Land until she gave birth in 1807. With a feminist imagination, Thomas explores Gunn's radical adventure, the origins of her child and her painful separation from him-narrated by an Orcadian minister named Magnus Inkster. 0-670-88684-X

[BCBW WINTER 1999]