Kate Cayley

• Oct-2025
• / General Fiction

A spring day in a gentrifying neighbourhood begins unremarkably enough; by evening someone has died.Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her taciturn, loner son locked in his room. Her friend Maddy, a failed ac...

• Sep-2021
• / Literary

A 2022 Firecracker Award for Fiction Finalist • A CBC Books and Quill & Quire Anticipated Fall Book • A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Title • A 49th Shelf Book of the Year 2021Linked short stories about families, nasce...

• Oct-2014
• / General Fiction

This tenth-anniversary edition of Kate Cayley's award-winning collection includes three new stories.A young mother intrudes into the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his doubl...

• Aug-2011
• / General Fiction

Françoise Laurent has never had an easy life. The only surviving child of a destitute washerwoman and wayward soldier, she must rely only on herself to get by. When her parents die suddenly from the smallpox ravishing New France (modern-day Montreal...

• Jul-2011
• / Historical

A strong-willed 16-year-old girl fights for survival in 18th-century North America.

Françoise Laurent has never had an easy life. The only surviving child of a destitute washerwoman and wayward soldier, she must rely only on herself to g...