Responding to little more than the primitive instinct for survival at any cost, she retreats ever deeper into the wilderness-and into the wilds of her own mind. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is tormented by mad visions and by the knowledge that her two ruthless brothers-in-law are in pursuit, determined to avenge their younger brother's death. At nineteen, she has just become a widow-and her husband's killer. In 1903 Mary Boulton flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. The novel was later selected for the 2009 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by actor Nicholas Campbell.Īdamson currently lives in Toronto with poet Kevin Connolly.Summary | Author | Book Reviews | Discussion Questions 'The Outlander,' a novel set in the Canadian West at the turn of the 20th century, was published by House of Anansi in the spring of 2007 and won the Hammett Prize that year. She followed up with the short story collection 'Help Me, Jacques Cousteau' in 1995 and a second volume of poetry, 'Ashland,' in 2003, as well as multiple chapbooks and a commissioned fan biography of Gillian Anderson, 'Mulder, It’s Me,' which she coauthored with her sister-in-law Dawn Connolly in 1998. She won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2008 for her 2007 novel The Outlander.Īdamson's first published work was 'Primitive,' a volume of poetry, in 1991. The novel was later selected for the 2009 ed Gil Adamson (born Gillian Adamson, 1961) is a Canadian writer.

Adamson's first published work was 'Primitive,' a volume of poetry, in 1991.

She won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2008 for her 2007 novel The Outlander. Gil Adamson (born Gillian Adamson, 1961) is a Canadian writer.

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