Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Best Thing for You by Annabel Lyon Annabel Lyon biography. Annabel Lyon’s story collection, Oxygen, and book of novellas, The Best Thing for You , were published in Canada to wide acclaim. The Golden Mean , her first novel, was a Canadian bestseller and was published in six languages. It won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Lyon lives in British Columbia with her husband and two children. This bio was last updated on 10/16/2016. We try to keep BookBrowse's biographies both up to date and accurate, but with many thousands of lives to keep track of it's a tough task. So, please help us - if the information about this author is out of date or inaccurate, and you know of a more complete source, please let us know. Authors and publishers: If you wish to make changes to a bio, send the complete biography as you would like it displayed so that we can replace the old with the new. Reviews "Beyond the Book" articles Free books to read and review (US only) Find books by time period, setting & theme Read-alike suggestions by book and author Book club discussions and much more! Just $12 for 3 months or $39 for a year. Interview. Read an interview in which Annabel Lyon discusses the incredible influences that Aristotle and his philosophies have had, both on the world at large and on her personally. The Golden Mean is your first novel for adults. What prompted you to move from writing primarily short stories and novellas to writing a full-length novel? What are the challenges in moving between one form of storytelling and another? Which do you prefer? My preferred form is the short story, but the scope of the material I wanted to deal with in The Golden Mean required a novel; it was as simple as that. I always liken writing to running: you're born with the body of a sprinter or a middle distance runner or a marathoner, and that's what's most comfortable for you. It doesn't mean you can't run the other races, but they're always going to come less naturally and be more of an effort. It's the same for me with novel writing. The long short story is my comfortable length, the length I feel most confident with, and consequently the novel was a real challenge. A number of times in the writing of the book I wanted to throw in the towel and just scale it down to a short story. But there was simply too much material, and it was too complex. The Golden Mean was nominated for the triple crown of Canadian literary awards, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, and the Roger's Writers' Trust Fiction . Reviews "Beyond the Book" articles Free books to read and review (US only) Find books by time period, setting & theme Read-alike suggestions by book and author Book club discussions and much more! Just $12 for 3 months or $39 for a year. Books by this Author. Books by Annabel Lyon at BookBrowse. Reviews "Beyond the Book" articles Free books to read and review (US only) Find books by time period, setting & theme Read-alike suggestions by book and author Book club discussions and much more! Just $12 for 3 months or $39 for a year. Readalikes. Thomas Cahill is the author of the bestselling Hinges of History series (a planned seven part series) including How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of . (more) Robert Harris, the son of a printer, was brought up in Nottingham, England. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph . His novels have . (more) The Best Thing for You. Annabel Lyon's debut book of fiction, Oxygen , "left the country's literary elite breathless" ( Elm Street magazine). Now, in The Best Thing for You , Lyon has taken her tough, unflinching style to new heights and all the anticipation is rewarded. Here, in three novellas, Lyon reveals the potential for darkness that lurks behind even the most perfect-seeming veneer. In the first novella, "No Fun," a middle-class family in present-day Vancouver is thrown into turmoil when their teenage son is charged in connection with . Read More. Annabel Lyon's debut book of fiction, Oxygen , "left the country's literary elite breathless" ( Elm Street magazine). Now, in The Best Thing for You , Lyon has taken her tough, unflinching style to new heights and all the anticipation is rewarded. Here, in three novellas, Lyon reveals the potential for darkness that lurks behind even the most perfect-seeming veneer. In the first novella, "No Fun," a middle-class family in present-day Vancouver is thrown into turmoil when their teenage son is charged in connection with the beating of a disabled man. In "The Goldberg Metronome," a young couple discovers an antique metronome taped up and hidden under a sink in their new apartment. Its dark past weaves a story that crosses centuries and continents. Then, in the stunning title novella, a riveting and layered film-noirish piece set in wartime 1940s Vancouver, a housewife in her twenties plots and carries out her husband's murder with sang-froid, with the help of her lover, a young grocery- store clerk. Later, the son of the insurance agent who loses his job over the woman's claim must deal with his family's financial downfall as he nurses his own obsession with her crime and its connection to the music in his head. Lyon draws us in with her vivid characters and sharp, highly charged prose and holds us in the worlds she creates. Along the way, she challenges the fragile illusion of goodness in our lives. Once again Annabel Lyon has demonstrated herself to be one of Canada's boldest, most exciting new voices. Read Less. All Copies ( 12 ) Softcover ( 12 ) Choose Edition ( 1 ) Book Details Seller Sort. 2004, McClelland & Stewart. Edition: 2004, McClelland & Stewart Trade paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0771053975 ISBN-13: 9780771053979 Pages: 336 Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Published: 01/2004 Language: English Alibris ID: 14715234031 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $3.99. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials. ► Contact This Seller. 2004, McClelland & Stewart. 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Edition: 2004, McClelland & Stewart Trade paperback, Good Available Copies: 3 Details: ISBN: 0771053975 ISBN-13: 9780771053979 Pages: 336 Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Published: 2004 Language: English Alibris ID: 16275965527 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $3.99. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Bargain books! ► Contact This Seller. 2004, McClelland & Stewart. WELLAND, ON, CANADA. Edition: 2004, McClelland & Stewart Trade paperback, Fine/Like New Details: Pages: 336 Edition: First printing Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Published: 2004 Language: English Alibris ID: 16419109061 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $3.99. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Consent. Saskia and Jenny are twins who are alike only in appearance. Saskia is a hard-working grad student whose interests are solely academic, while Jenny, an interior designer, is glamourous, thrill-seeking, capricious and narcissistic. Still, when Jenny is severely injured in an accident, Saskia puts her life on hold to be with her sister. Sara and Mattie are sisters with a difficult relationship. Mattie, the younger sister, is affectionate, curious and intellectually disabled. As soon as Sara is able, she leaves home, in pursuit of a life of the mind and the body: she loves nothing more than fine wines, sensual perfumes and expensive clothing. But when their mother dies, Sara inherits the duty of caring for her sister. Arriving at the house one day, she finds out that Mattie has married Robert, her wealthy mother's handyman. Though Mattie seems happy, Sara cannot let this go, forcing the annulment of the marriage and the banishment of Robert. With him out of the picture, though, she has no choice but to become her sister's keeper, sacrificing her own happiness and Mattie's too. When Robert turns up again, another tragedy happens. The waves from these events eventually engulf Sara and Saskia, sisters in mourning, in a quest for revenge. (From Random House Canada) Annabel Lyon is a writer from Vancouver. Her novel The Golden Mean won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Her other books include the short story collection Oxygen, the novella collection The Best Thing for You and the young adult novels All-Season Edie and Encore Edie . From the book. Mattie was fine by herself at night and could do simple meals and baking, tea and toast, soup from a can, grilled cheese, salad, pudding, cookies even. She had her bus pass. During the day she had her job at the workshop and her crafts at the drop-in centre. At night she watched movies and talked with her workshop friends on the phone. Sara usually called her once or twice each day to make sure she was all right, and visited three or four times a week to help with cleaning and shopping, and to keep her company now that their mother was no longer there. Mattie couldn't drive a car or concentrate on a book and she needed help with bigger sums of money, but in a short interaction with her you would not necessarily know these things. She was sweet and friendly and wore expensive nice clothes chosen by Sara and their mother. Robert, though, she told the lawyer, would have known. From Consent by Annabel Lyon ©2020. Published by Random House Canada. Why Annabel Lyon wrote Consent. "This novel began, way back in 2004, when a lawyer acquaintance of mine told me about a case. It was about a young woman with a mental disability who had gotten married without her family's knowledge or consent to a man who was basically after the family money. It was quite a wealthy family. The family, very unhappily and regretfully, had to go before a judge and have her declared incompetent and have the marriage annulled on those grounds. "Exploring the bond between sisters came from an interest in the idea of caregiving — and how consent and caregiving can intersect. In the #MeToo era, we think of consent now as being very much about sexual consent. "But it can be about something else. When we're dealing with family members, we can be forced into roles of caregivers. It's harder to say no. It can be a loving and a wonderful thing. But it can also be a burden that is really, really hard to talk about. It's a bit of a taboo to say, 'I have been put into a position of caregiving and I don't know if I'm comfortable with it.' "I'm not a black-and-white person — I'm a 'shades of grey' person." Consent by Annabel Lyon makes the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist. Consent by Vancouver author Annabel Lyon has made the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist. The £30,000 (approx. $52,769 Cdn) prize recognizes the year's best novel written by a woman in English. Consent follows a woman named Sara, who becomes caregiver to her intellectually disabled sister, Mattie, after their mother dies. When Sara returns home, she surprisingly finds Mattie married to her mother's handyman, Robert. Sara gets the marriage annulled, driving a wedge between herself and Mattie. When Robert re-enters their lives, Sara and Mattie get entangled with him and another set of sisters, twins Saskia and Jenny. "We read so many brilliant novels for this year's prize. but we're confident that we have chosen 16 standout novels that represent a truly wide and varied range of fiction by women that reflects multiple perspectives, narrative styles and preoccupations," said chair of judges Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other . Lyon is the only Canadian to make the list. Her 2009 novel The Golden Mean won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Her other books include the short story collection Oxygen, the novella collection The Best Thing for You and the YA novels All-Season Edie and Encore Edie . The full longlist is: Because of You by Dawn French Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi by Annabel Lyon Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones by Raven Leilani No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers Summer by Ali Smith The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig by Brit Bennett Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller. A shortlist of six novels will be revealed on April 28, 2021. The winner will be announced on July 7, 2021. Canadians who have won the award include Toronto's Anne Michaels for her 1996 novel Fugitive Pieces and Winnipeg's Carol Shields for her 1997 novel Larry's Party . Past winners include Kamila Shamsie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith. Annabel Lyon. Annabel Lyon, novelist, short story writer (born Brampton, Ont 1971). Annabel Lyon was born in Brampton, Ontario, but moved with her family to Coquitlam, British Columbia when she was a year old. She obtained a BA in philosophy from Simon Fraser University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. In addition to teaching creative writing at the University of British Columbia, Lyon has taught piano. Her writing spans novellas, short stories, including the collection Oxygen (2000), the young adult novels, All-Season Edie (2009) and Encore Edie (2011), and highly acclaimed novels. Her work has been recognized with nominations for numerous prizes. Lyon's collection of three novellas, The Best Thing For You (2004), was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Each of the novellas circulate in an upper-middle-class milieu, where gentrification is a subtle, constant pressure, and seemingly small decisions have unforeseen, lasting consequences. Her debut novel, The Golden Mean (2009), was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, which it won. The novel speaks from Greek philosopher Aristotle's point of view and works in its structure to inhabit the same perfect balance that its protagonist so urgently seeks. Lyon's second novel, The Sweet Girl (2012), again immerses the reader in Aristotle's time, taking the perspective of his daughter, Pythias, as a young woman. She navigates the turbulent times following the death of Alexander the Great and her father, and a social millieu that places great restrictions upon women, with innate strength and the unusual skills acquired during her upbringing. Long-listed for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize, The Sweet Girl received substantial critical attention. Lyon's prose walks, sure-footed, between philosophical discourse, formal precision, and the details of everyday life. Whether her protagonist is a preteen, hell-bent on sisterly revenge and daydreaming of witchcraft to save her ailing grandfather, a bored war-time housewife with an extraordinary plan, or Aristotle worrying about the nature of nature, Lyon's characters evoke the vacillations of the human heart with the thoroughness of a bomb maker. Her spare prose is deceptive; it is as methodical and surprising as cut stone, or a landslide shorn away from itself. Lyon tells of her father teaching her to write when she was six. Some of his rules, she says, were "If you've said something in six words, you can say it in four," and "Get to the point." Annabel Lyon's writing gets to the point, and does so with crystalline poise.