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The Damages

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Pub Date 25 Apr 2024 | Archive Date 19 Mar 2024


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**NB UNPROOFED MANUSCRIPT**

What I remember best about that week in January is trying to keep track of all the lies I told...

1997. Ontario has been hit by a days-long, life-endangering ice storm, and on Regis University campus, with classes cancelled, the students are partying. In the midst of it all, eighteen-year-old Ros's roommate Megan goes missing. As a panicked search ensues, Ros is blamed for not keeping a closer eye on Megan, and the incident casts a shadow over the next two decades of her life.

2020. Ros's former partner, Lukas, the father of her eleven-year-old son, is accused of a sexual assault. The accusation brings new details of an old story to light, forcing Ros to revisit a dark moment from her past. Ros must take a hard look not only at the father of her child, but also at her own mistakes, her own trauma, and at the supposedly liberal period she grew up in.

**NB UNPROOFED MANUSCRIPT**

What I remember best about that week in January is trying to keep track of all the lies I told...

1997. Ontario has been hit by a days-long, life-endangering ice storm, and...


Advance Praise

'A thriller with a narrator you won't be able to get out of your head' - Toronto Star

'A thought-provoking examination of truth, trauma, and memory, briskly and attentively presenting readers with a vivid portrait of one woman's complicated experiences. A compelling character study that tackles intriguing moral questions' - Kirkus Reviews

'This is one of the first novels I've read that does a brilliant job of unpacking the duplicity and dishonesty of the 1990s. An intelligent and intense read about how power structures are passed on - The Damages held me, riveted, in a tight, icy grip' - Claire Cameron, author of The Bear and The Last Neanderthal

'The Damages is a probing, courageous work – a dance along the tightropes of memory, justice and love. It explodes the myth of the innocent bystander and ultimately celebrates the lifelong moral challenge of learning who you really are' - Sarah Henstra, author of The Red Word, winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction

'Genevieve Scott is a sophisticated writer, and The Damages is a sharp, multi-layered story about truth, lies, history and memory. I stayed up late to finish it! I was not disappointed: this is a complex and satisfying novel' - Sarah Selecky, author of Radiant Shimmering Light

'A thriller with a narrator you won't be able to get out of your head' - Toronto Star

'A thought-provoking examination of truth, trauma, and memory, briskly and attentively presenting readers with a...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9780857308696
PRICE £9.99 (GBP)
PAGES 352

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