The Petty Details of So-and-so's Life

Proof Copy. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 322. Pictorial card wraps.

Listed by the Globe and Mail as one of the "Best Books of the Year." Author's second novel in which she probes the bruises of a broken-hearted family, in a voice that is both harrowing and comic to boot. Selected by the jury of the Orange Prize in 2001 as one of 21 promising writers to watch in the new century. "Suggestive of Wilde at his spirited best... Gibb's narrative leaves you poised – sometimes within a single sentence – between laughter and heartbreak." –The Globe and Mail