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A powerful and wonderful imagination blossoms here.” - Globe and Mail “A gorgeous surprise of a book … Stylish and compelling, this novel about a woman’s picaresque flight from and toward justice is both elegant in shape and exquisitely written. “Striking, thoughtful, full of unexpected twists, The Outlander is that rare delight: a novel that is beautifully written yet as gripping as any airport page-turner … Adamson, a Toronto-based poet, must possess either an impressive collection of reference books or a powerful imagination - or both … This is a serious, literary book that moves far beyond genre or gender stereotypes.” - Guardian “The Outlander, a strikingly good first novel by the Canadian poet Gil Adamson … reads like a pastiche Western with elements of supernatural grotesquerie out of Stephen King or even The X-Files … The author writes well on the supernatural chill of the Canadian outback at nightfall.” - Spectator

“Gil Adamson’s first novel bolts off the opening page … An absorbing adventure from a Canadian poet and short story writer who knows how to keep us enthralled … A strikingly pensive novel, anchored by the stark beauty of its setting and the harsh wisdom of its narrator … Adamson is as captivating with descriptions of vast mountain ranges as she is with the smaller calamities … Her story will unsettle your dreams just the same.” - Washington Post She is also the author of a collection of linked stories, Help Me, Jacques Cousteau, and two poetry collections, Primitive and Ashland. It was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, CBC Canada Reads, and the Prix Femina in France longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and chosen as a Globe and Mail and Washington Post Top 100 Book. Her first novel, The Outlander, won the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the ReLit Award, and the Drummer General’s Award. GIL ADAMSON is the critically acclaimed author of Ridgerunner, which won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail and the CBC.