Lost in September

Long-awaited, thrilling new fiction from Kathleen Winter, whose previous novelAnnabelwas a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller, Governor General’s Award, Writers’ Trust and Orange prizes, was aGlobe and Mail“Best Book” and aNew York Times“Notable,” and was a #1 bestselling Canada Reads selection.

From one of Canada’s most exciting writers comes a gripping, compassionate and stunning novel that overturns and rewrites history. Enter the world of Jimmy–a tall, red-haired, homeless thirty-something ex-soldier, battered by PTSD–as he camps out on the streets of modern-day Montreal, trying to remember and reclaim his youth. While his past is something of an enigma, even to himself, the young man bears a striking resemblance to General James Wolfe, “Conqueror of Canada” and “Hero of Quebec,” who died on the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

As a young soldier in his twenties, the historical James Wolfe (1727-1759) was gra