Notes Towards Recovery

Fiction | Short Story
Pub Date: May 1, 2019 
5.5 X 8.5 in | 215 pgs
Trade Paperback: 9781988989082
e-pub: 9781988989099

Notes Towards Recovery is a short story collection that explores loss and the spaces around loss. At the centre of these stories are everyday women who must navigate these spaces and their shifting boundaries, often redefining themselves in the process.

Praise for Notes Towards Recovery

"...Notes Towards Recovery is a remarkable debut."

— Kerry Clare, author of Pickle Me This 

"...moving, intricate, emotionally powerful..."

— Adam C Piette, Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield 

Media

North Bay author examines 'the core feelings of loss'

The next writer in the series: may 1, 2019

About the Author

Louise Ells was born and raised in Northeastern Ontario. After years of travel, she moved to Cambridge and earned her PhD in Creative Writing. She was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2017, and her short story collection, Notes Towards Recovery (Latitude 46, 2019). Louise teaches at universities and colleges in England and Canada and currently lives just north of Toronto, where she can often be found in her library surrounded by books and snuggled up with her cats.