Gil Adamson Author of THE OUTLANDER In precise crystalline prose, Gil Adamson describes the heart thumping flight of nineteen-year old Mary Boulton, murderess, across the Alberta wilderness in the early nineteen hundreds. Gently-bred Mary marries the first man who shows any interest in her and heads west to live in a small cabin in the woods. Suffering from loneliness, anguish from the death of her infant son and post-partum depression, she kills her unfaithful husband. She flees into the wilderness, a mere step ahead of the law and her two brothers-in-law bent on revenge. Her retreat into the wild mountains parallels her bleak retreat into her haunted and tumultuous mind. A cast of unforgettable people help her: an outlaw lover, William Moreland, based on a real-life character, a preacher, a shop-keeper dwarf and a helpful Crow Indian. Adamson describes in minute detail the harshness and beauty of nature as Mary faces cold, starvation, bears, wolves and the ever present danger of the two stalking brothers. The novel ends, weaving together nature’s unpredictable hold on human lives and Mary’s fate, in an unforgettable climax of redemption and hope. Winner 2007 Drummer General's Award 2007 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award 2007 Hammett Award 2007 ReLit Award Nominated for: 2009 Canada Reads Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book, Canada and Caribbean The Trillium Book Award Reviews http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/productdescription/006149125X/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books http://www.quillandquire.com/authors/profile.cfm?article_id=7810 http://canadianfiction.suite101.com/article.cfm/review_the_outlander http://www.cbc.ca/canadareads/books-outlander.html http://www.canada.com/entertainment/celebrity/Outlander+chance+Canada+Reads+title/1342583/story.html