Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Canada and the Caribbean)

Longlist, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2010

Finalist, McNally Robinson Book of the Year

Finalist, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

The Globe Best 100 list

For Lily Piper, life on the prairies is spare and austere. Nothing in her world responds to her hunger for life. When puberty hits, Lily ends up in  England, a place she thinks she may have invented. There at last, she experiences life in all its ambiguity, until she is called home to face a future she thought she may have escaped.

Reading by Lightning was published by Goose Lane Editions.  The Readers Guide Edition includes an author interview and an Afterward by Lisa Moore.

“We experience this writing with our noses and ears and eyes and fingertips.”  — Lisa Moore

“Breathtakingly good.” — Nikki Gemmel

“A beautiful story of loss and desire . . . It’s the kind of book to get lost in.” —Kristen den Hartog

“Utterly absorbing, told with consummate grace.” —Beth Powning

 “Precise, complex, and elegant, Reading by Lightning flashes with wit and insight.” – Meira Cook.