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This latest novel from Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Linden MacIntyre, Why Men Lie, offers a moving and emotionally complex conclusion to the Cape Breton trilogy. Two years after the events of The Bishop's Man, we're introduced to Effie MacAskill Gillis, sister of the troubled priest Duncan. It's 1997, and Effie is an independent, middle-aged woman working as a tenured professor of Celtic Studies, but her complicated and often disappointing love life has left her all but ready to give up on the opposite sex. Then suddenly, a chance encounter with a man on a Toronto subway platform gives…
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5 editions- Other · English · 2013Penguin Random House · 384 pages · 9780099575221
- Other · English · 2013368 pages · 9780307360878
- Other · English · 2012Penguin Random House · 384 pages · 9781448130337
- Other · English · 2012Random House Canada · 368 pages · 9780307360861
- Other · English · 2012Jonathan Cape · 368 pages · 9780224096959
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