
But after two customers insist they've seen her double, Jean decides to investigate. Jean's a grown woman with a husband and two kids as well as a thriving bookstore in downtown Toronto, and she doesn't rattle easily - not like she used to. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market, where she sometimes buys churros and drags an empty shopping cart down the streets, like she's looking for something to put in it. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. Michael Redhill takes a fascinating premise and turns it into something utterly mesmerising.A darkly comic literary thriller about a woman who fears for her sanity - and then her life - when she learns that her doppelganger has appeared in a local park. 'Highly original, beautiful and unsettling. 'There's plenty of fun to be had in this' - Daily Mail surface reality becomes increasingly hard to pin down as the book moves towards its phantasmagorical climax' Curiosity grows to obsession and soon Jean's concerns shift from the identity of the woman, to her very own.įunny, dark and surprising, Bellevue Square takes readers down the existentialist rabbit hole and asks the question: what happens when the sense you've made of things stops making sense? But after two of her customers insist they've seen her double, Jean decides to investigate. The proud owner of a thriving bookstore, she doesn't rattle easily – not like she used to. Jean lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two kids.

A peculiar collection of drug addicts, scam artists, philanthropists, philosophers and vagrants – the regulars of Bellevue Square. She's never seen her, but others* swear they have. Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize I was totally hooked' - Sam Baker, The Pool What happens when the sense you've made of things stops making sense?
