Lyon, Annabel

Prolific author Lyon, who achieved international success with her first novel, 2010’s The Golden Mean, is on track for more acclaim with this suspenseful, seamlessly constructed novel of intricately mingled lives. It’s already been long-listed for Canada’s prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Lyon won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for The Golden Mean, a Canadian best seller about the relationship between Aristotle and his most famous pupil, Alexander the Great. In this follow-up to that award-winning debut, the author seamlessly fuses the history of the ancient world with the rich earthiness of her characters' everyday lives, dreams, and ambitions. [See Prepub Alert, 1/13.]